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...happy coincidence with its title, the picture is solid throughout, and even the smaller roles show depth and good characterization. Denholm Elliott, as Wilson the clerk, Peter Finch, as Father Rank, and Gerard Oury as Yusef all contribute positively in small ways. Yusef's dialogues with Scobie provide some of the scarce light spots of the evening, but because of their disturbing implications never contradict the overall tone of the film...
...they know almost nothing about Venus, the earth's nearest (26 million miles) planetary neighbor. Its size, density and period of rotation are all uncertain, and no one has glimpsed its surface, which is always covered with clouds as opaque as marshmallows. In the latest Astrophysical Journal, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory tells how he learned at least a few facts about cloud-wrapped Venus...
...Chicago has lost much of the experimental glamour of the Hutchins era. Nor has he been able to replace such men as Physicist Enrico Fermi, who died last November, Psychologist Louis Thurstone and Sociologist Ernest Burgess, who retired, or Chemist Harrison Brown, Geologist F. J. Pettijohn and Physiologist Ralph Gerard, all of whom have gone elsewhere. Will Chicago ever again become as exciting a place as it used to be? The danger is, says Kimpton, "that you get so used to thinking in terms of retrenchment that you lose any imaginative flair." Kimpton's own summary of his first...
...York's Democratic Governor-elect Averell Harriman last week paid the first installment on a debt owed to a careful political bookkeeper. As his secretary of state, he named Tammany Hall Leader Carmine G. (for Gerard) De Sapio, without whose help Harriman would still be a wistful political aspirant. Since New York is willing to pay its secretary of state $17,000 (plus $3,000 expenses) for such light-housekeeping duties as licensing hairdressers and sitting as chairman of the Cemetery Board, De Sapio will still be able to devote full time to his real job: that of managing...
...radically new explanation is now offered by one of the nation's top astronomers, Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago. After almost a year's moon-gazing through the McDonald Observatory's 82-in. telescope (the world's third-largest), near El Paso, Texas, he decided that the lunar markings were caused by a swarm of satellite planets...