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...Pools. Venera was also equipped with a gamma-ray detector that should provide the first on-site evidence as to the composition and structure of the Venusian "soil." That evidence is not likely to be very inviting. As late as the 1950s, many astronomers still thought that conditions on cloud-shrouded Venus might favor life, but by now they know otherwise. Rotating once every 243 days in a direction opposite to that of the other planets, Venus has a surface that University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper says might resemble a fresh volcanic field, with boiling sulfur springs...
Liberal Leaning. Most of the heat centered in Washington, home base for a sizable army of political reporters who feel they will now have to cover the coming campaign under something of a partisan cloud, their neutrality compromised in the eyes of a skeptical public. The endorsement, complained Chairman Ronald Sarro of Washington's Evening Star-Daily News Guild unit, "gives ammunition to those looking for an excuse to attack the press on any grounds." It bothered even those who, while not at all anxious to belabor the press, feel that it should not only be fair but should...
Racing a Shadow. As it happened, the cloud cover was broken, and some of the observation sites had clear views. To run experiments that cannot be done through dense atmosphere, several scientific groups rocketed their instruments as high as 130 miles from Alaska's Poker Flat, White Sands, N. Mex., and East Quoddy, N.S. The moon's shadow raced across Canada at a speed around 2,000 m.p.h., so chasing it at anything below Mach 2 could not be very productive. But one group, headed by Dr. Arthur Cox of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, took off from...
...only get hurt, and brazens the girl into leaving because she's "not what Don needs." Neither, most emphatically, is Mom, who nevertheless turns out to be a real heroine. Realizing after all her conniving that it is time her boy became a man, she departs in a cloud of humility, leaving Don to fend for himself and perhaps convince his paramour to return...
Just so: Hoyle is the world's most celebrated astrophysicist, not only because of the reach of his knowledge and intuition, but because of the outrageous speed of his cosmological imagination. Several times Hoyle's exuberance has boiled over into fiction, including The Black Cloud and Rockets in Ursa Major -the latter written in collaboration with his son Geoffrey, as are the two long short stories in this book...