Word: venuses
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...between the lines connecting them with the sun. The more planets involved in a configuration, the more serious the storm is likely to be. During the great magnetic storm of July 1946, for instance, three planets (the earth, Jupiter and Saturn) were in a configuration, and three others (Mercury, Venus and Mars) were also in a "critical relationship...
When Cole Porter's new musical, Out of this World, opened in Boston, orders, went out to tidy up the lyrics and dress up the cast, particularly Venus, who wore only four white doves. The producers agreed, grumbling: "We regret that the Boston censor has found reason to be shocked by the authentic Greek bacchanalian atmosphere...
...will see a lot more of him. In addition to The Lady, Broadway will see Fry's translation of Jean Anouilh's charming French fairy-tale farce, Ring Round the Moon, which opens next week, and some time soon Sir Laurence Olivier will present Fry's Venus Observed...
Applicants were to "check tour desired" -in the order of their distance: the moon (240,000 miles, 9½ hours); Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn (790 million miles, 1,333 days). The planetarium's "Passenger Briefing" warned that the moon is no such warm romantic place as it might seem over Miami, but rather a chill, arid spot, covered with a layer of dustlike pumice several feet thick, where conversation would be impossible, climate problematical, and locomotion difficult. While working up to a speed of 3,621 m.p.h., those with high blood pressure might suffer momentary blackouts...
...last week, the planetarium had received more than 18,000 reservations and requests for information. A man from Munich, Germany wanted to build a hotel on the moon, and a bellhop from Marion, Ohio a skating rink on Venus. A New York fur broker asked about trapping rights; a radio cowboy saw a chance "to get in on the ground floor of radio business on Venus...