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...chagrin of Pioneer's photographic team, there was a loss of several close-up pictures, including one of the Jovian moon lo, an object of particular interest to astronomers because of its extraordinary brilliance. But other data and the color shots of Jupiter, including a closeup of the Red Spot during the flyby, fully met expectations...
...first wedding in the Queen's immediate family since 1960-when Princess Margaret married another commoner, Antony Armstrong-Jones -commemorative stamps were issued and commemorative medallions struck. Britain showed the loving couple in a tooth-studded closeup (3½p. and 20p.). Stamps issued for such far-flung corners of the Commonwealth as Aitutaki and the Pitcairn Islands displayed Anne and Mark with heads touching and happiness, as one newspaper put it, "welling from their smiles and expressions." For the occasion, the Courage Ltd. brewery issued a "royal wedding ale"-light in color, but extra strong...
...space flight. An unmanned U.S. craft, Pioneer 10, is closing in on Jupiter after a voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus and later will provide the first closeup view of Mercury-man's first two-planet survey with a single space probe...
...various locations round the U.S., British Columbia and France, although it is impossible to tell exactly where. To establish each new locale, Director Furie (The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues) takes a closeup of a regional license plate, as if he were a cop keeping tab on the traffic. From Washington, D.C., to Washington State, about the only things that change are the colors and the numbers on the licenses. Hit! tries very hard to be a tough action picture, but it is just a little too addled-maybe from all that commuting...
...Skylab astronauts also obtained closeup views of erupting prominences, which consist of relatively cool clouds of ionized (or charged) gases that have temperatures of only about 6,000° F., compared with typical temperatures of 2,000,000° elsewhere in the corona. Before Skylab 2, solar physicists thought the phenomenon was relatively rare. Now it has been observed about once every two weeks, followed by periods of radio interference on earth. The astronauts also made observations of so-called solar bright points; although the points were previously thought to be concentrated in the sun's active equatorial belts...