Word: final
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected, the final 24 photographs that were shot just before Mariner 6 ducked behind Mars were the most dramatic. Taken from as close as 2,170 miles, they showed a bleak, forbidding landscape, unmistakably similar to the harsh terrain of the moon. "I've seen so many craters I'd hesitate to count them," said Leighton. "We expected craters, but not in such fantastic number...
Mariner 6's final photographs did not show any signs of life-but JPL scientists had already warned that even at the spacecraft's relatively close distances, vegetation would be all but unobservable. The two Mariners, moreover, were designed only to determine whether Mars could support life. At week's end, investigators were already mulling over two important observations. Mariner 6 had failed to detect any nitrogen -an ingredient of all earthly life -but it found signs of water in the form of ice in the Martian atmosphere or on the surface...
Secretly, Kuznetsov was desperately unhappy. For him the final blow was the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which, he says, turned Russia's intelligentsia against the Soviet regime. He began planning his escape. His pretext for traveling abroad was perfect. How could Moscow deny a Soviet writer the opportunity to research a book on Lenin's stay in Britain? Kuznetsov transferred his Russian royalty payments to his wife and nine-year-old son. After photographing the pages of his unpublished works, he sewed the 35-mm. film into the lining of his coat. Into his suitcase Kuznetsov crammed copies...
...nonsense, Crowhurst observed that life is a chess game played against "cosmic beings." But the proper strategy for success eluded him, as his boat suffered new damage almost daily. "It is finished. It is finished. IT IS THE MERCY," he wrote enigmatically on July 1, the date of his final entry. "I will play this game when I choose. There is no reason for harmful . . ." The sentence was never completed...
...boughten friendship goes on at the box office; Wayne will continue to provide, provide at the rate of two pictures a year. And at the final fadeout? "I would like to be remembered?well, the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo, fuerte y formal.' Which means: he was ugly, was strong and had dignity...