Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever actually assembled, a convention would ostensibly concern itself only with the so-called Dirksen amendment, which has been defeated twice in the Senate. The measure would reverse the court decision and permit election of one house of a bicameral state legislature on a basis other than population. Trouble is, there is nothing in the Constitution to limit such a convention to a single issue. As Ev Dirksen himself acknowledges, delegates might begin to rewrite the national charter...
Last week, on the 157th day of an arcing, 242-million-mile journey across the solar system Mariner 6 reached its destination. In the closest approach to Mars ever achieved by a man-made object, the U.S. spacecraft flew within 2,130 miles of earth's planetary neighbor...
...density and composition of its atmosphere and its varying surface temperatures. On board the ungainly, 850-lb. ship, whose four solar panels gave it the look of a stubby windmill, tiny transmitters also sent back to earth, some 60 million miles away, the best close-up portrait man has ever had of Mars. At week's end, an identical twin named Mariner 7 moved into position for similar electronic observations. Mariner 6 aimed its close-up cameras on Martian equatorial regions, Mariner 7 at the planet's south polar area. Together they were programmed to photograph about...
...Soviet astronomer suggested quite seriously that Mars' two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos (Fear and Terror, named after the two attendants of the ancient god of war), might be artificial satellites sent into orbit by Martians. But they would have to be unlike any terrestrial creatures. More than ever, Mars seems hostile to most earthly forms of life. Its surface appears exceptionally dry; its atmosphere seems to be composed largely of carbon dioxide with only a trace of water vapor...
...bacteria have survived in a Marslike environment. Moreover, some biologists theorize, life could have evolved on Mars by entirely unfamiliar biological processes. That does not mean that scientists expect to find strange, advanced beings on Mars. But they do not preclude the possibility of primitive life unlike anything ever seen on earth...