Word: existed
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...Italy, as in other Mediterranean countries, the sacred and the profane exist side by side. There is nothing like a good shrine, for example, to attract a raggle-taggle of sausage vendors, post card hawkers, fortune tellers, pickpockets, shooting-gallery barkers and common gyp artists - all waiting to peel the pilgrims of their lire. And if the shrine honors a particularly popular saint, the traffic in counterfeit relics is brisk...
...realm of hard diplomacy the United States might negotiate for guarantees against aggression: security for West Berlin or an agreement (if one does not already exist) that Soviet toops will not return to Cuba. We might even request that the USSR pay its bill at the United Nations...
Analysis of the spectra showed that above its cloud deck, the Venusian atmosphere has about 9.8 milligrams of water vapor per square centimeter. This is not much, but it is not far from the amount that is believed to exist above a comparable level in the earth's atmosphere...
...clouds or whether they are dust or hydrocarbons, as some authorities think. "I have now come to the end of my competence," he says, "but my personal opinion is that it does imply water." Further deductions are even more iffy, but Dr. Strong suspects that free oxygen may exist along with carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere. If so, it probably comes from water molecules that are broken into hydrogen and oxygen by ultraviolet radiation from...
Where water exists at reasonable temperature, life may exist too, even if only as microscopic organisms floating in the clouds. Dr. Strong believes that "the proof of water vapor forces us to re-examine every previous calculation made concerning the possibility of some sort of life existing on Venus. The case is not closed...