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...moon cancel each other out. Permanently in orbit at those positions, each pair of huge cylinders (1,100 yds. long and 220 yds. in diameter) would support 10,000 people; they would contain an atmosphere like earth's, water, farm land and a variety of flora and fauna. The cylinders would rotate slowly, thus simulating gravity and holding people, buildings and soil "down" on the inner surfaces. For power, the space colonizers would rely on ever-present sunlight, captured by large external mirrors that could be controlled to create the effect of night and day and even of seasonal...
...most desperate effort of modern times to extend a family is that of Joy and George Adamson, who have this pet lioness-as well as an ark's worth of other African fauna-instead of children running around their game preserve in Kenya. The world could well have been spared yet another rendering of the Born Free legend, but it must be admitted that NBC'S new series (Monday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) at least avoids the queasier questions raised by Mrs. Adamson's elaborate efforts at surrogate motherhood. Elsa, the Adamsons' lioness, has turned into...
...discussed at length in the journal Physics Today. Basically, O'Neill proposes building completely self-contained space communities in the form of cylinders some 16 miles long and four miles in diameter. The cylindrical worlds would contain water, an atmosphere, earth-style farm land, fish, birds and other fauna. They would even have their own earthlike gravity, in the form of centrifugal force produced by rotation of the cylinders. With these and other amenities, the inhabitants (eventually as many as 200,000 people in each) could easily live, work and play on the cylinders' inner surfaces. For power...
...marvelous book about everything that went into the financing, building and provisioning of whaling ships, the men who sailed and lost them, the "overweening pursuit of wealth" that drove them to riches and ruin. Allen writes poetically but with a naturalist's restraint about the climate, flora and fauna of the forbidding, fickle northwest corner of Alaska. As few writers have, he describes with nose-to-nose empathy its native Eskimos, an incredibly robust and good-natured people inhabiting one of earth's coldest hells...
There were 2,000 people, sure. The real draw, however, at Ethel Kennedy's 15th annual Pet Show at Hickory Hill was the fauna-everything from dogs to two worms that were entered as twins. "We want to keep politics out of this show," said Ringmaster Art Buchwald, but there was a slip-up in the Unusual Pet category. Two "Watergate bugs" got a blue ribbon. A chameleon named Richard Nixon took second prize...