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Janus (by Carolyn Green) calls for somewhat faint praise but need not be damned by it. A pleasant enough, light sex farce that brings an American touch of wackiness to a French-style exercise in sin, it concerns the wife of a shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus...
...warm, late-autumn sun shone down on the cemetery. The last notes of the Star-Spangled Banner floated up from the tomb, mingling with the faint purr of a jet airplane, invisible in the sky above. Facing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the panorama of Washington beyond it stood a white-haired old man in a black Chesterfield coat. His face was pink, and in his right hand he held a black felt hat over his heart. As the anthem ended, Herbert Hoover, 81, stepped forward to meet an Army sergeant holding a large wreath of yellow chrysanthemums...
Sweet Tea in Siberia. As a youngster, Fyodor was never allowed out with girls, and at his first sniff of a perfumed beauty in a St. Petersburg salon, he keeled over in a dead faint. He did better with the town doxies (later he even hinted darkly that he once raped a little girl), but it was not until after he had been jailed and exiled to Siberia as a subversive that he met his first major love...
Jack Vodrey of Princeton, runner-up last year, and Doug Brew of Dartmouth will also contend for the individual crown, but their teams are not rated too highly, and only Penn, outside of the four top teams is conceded even a faint chance of capturing the championship...
...sodium rocket was not merely a beautiful and expensive firework; it had a serious scientific purpose: to help the Air Force's long-range study of the upper atmosphere. Part of the "air glow" (the faint glow of the night sky) comes from sodium atoms that absorb solar energy during the day. At night they give off this energy as yellow sodium light. Scientists do not know how high the "sodium layer" is. Nor do they know how the sodium got into the top of the atmosphere. Some think it came from outer space; others suspect that it originated...