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Measuring the distance to Mars or other such far-out planets is far trickier; they are well beyond the useful range of available radar. Astronomers calculate the interplanetary distance by observing the time it takes for Mars to complete one orbit around the sun and comparing that time with the earth's own time on its orbit. Since the distances of the planets from the sun are in proportion to their periods of revolution, the radius of the Martian orbit can thus be measured in terms of the basic "astronomical unit": the average distance of the earth from...
...people than when he was last in Moscow in 1956, and that there is far less fear and red tape. He felt that he was not restricted in any way; the only slight hitch came when neither of his interpreters wanted to be seen talking to the far-out stilyagi youths. Their reluctance, which they eventually overcame, seemed based less on fear than on social position. Reported Bell: "It was like a young Wall Street broker being seen on a tough street in Manhattan consorting with a rumbleprone gang." Bell found that Soviet young people are "furiously interested in everything...
...Far-Out Forum. The city overwhelms with its bigness but spawns littleness too. On Broadway, the near miss no longer survives. The theater goes for broke-a hit or a failure. And so off-Broadway begins as a low-budget protest, and soon becomes so sizable a financial investment that it, too, prices out the adventuresome. But the far-out still have the coffeehouses as a forum for beatnik poetry, strained through the beard...
Strip Off the Bumpers. Drag racing, that dangerous pastime of speed-happy youngsters, has grown up a bit in the last few years. Most of the Pomona fans were still teenagers, easily identified by their headgear-fezzes. derbies, top hats, brightly chromed World War II helmets -and far-out chatter: "Man, look at that screamer. Like that's sudden iron."* But the 300 drivers who competed for the coveted title of ''Top Eliminator" were a long cry from the thrill-crazy "squirrels" who zoom through traffic and terrorize motorists. A few were professional racers; the majority were...
...over a year, California Comic Stan Freberg has been delighting U.S. radio audiences with zany commercials featuring the so-called "Chun Kingston Trio" in such far-out "folk songs" as Oh, Handle Me Down My Walking Chow Mein. Last week, turning to television, Freberg outdid himself on an hour-long "Salute to the Chinese New Year." In his shrewd parodies of familiar television fare, Freberg so amused the critics that they genially forgave him for turning the program into one long plug for Chinese chow, capped by the slogan: "Buy two cans of our chow mein...