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...show live, sends Triton from the bottom of the sea to hold the rocks apart so the Argo can sail past. Jason sails on to get the Golden Fleece. He needs this gelt pelt in order to claim the throne of Thessaly, but it is watched over by the Hydra, as disgusting a monster as ever writhed and roared on the screen. Hydra has more heads than a totem pole, but brave Jason whacks it dead and snags the Fleece (which looks like a Beverly Hills bath...
Jason's producers have mixed myths to suit their script: Hydra killing was Hercules' specialty, not Jason's. And they have dreamed up monsters Jason never saw, including a steam-powered King Kong, built of bronze, with a drain plug in its heel. The straight story of Jason's exploits, told with magic and imagination and a minimum of studio trickery, might have been delightful. This version is more bull than Bulfinch...
...night, getting to know the swarming stars as intimately as he knew the streets of his own town. One recent night, as he scanned the dark sky, he watched the constellations rise with familiar timing above the eastern horizon; then he gradually turned his telescope on the constellation Hydra. There, three degrees southwest of star Pi, he caught a glimpse of a faint misty object. He did not remember seeing it before. He focused his telescope with extra care and looked again. The misty object was still there. With growing excitement he checked his sky maps. They showed nothing...
...spotted the object, declared it a new comet, named it after its discoverer and informed European astronomical authorities. Word went out to the Harvard College Observatory, Western Hemisphere clearinghouse for astronomical information, which also found the new comet and published its position. Soon telescopes in both hemispheres were combing Hydra for Comet Ikeya...
Since history first took notice of them 2,500 years ago, the inhabitants of the sun-scorched Cyclades Islands off Greece have led a parched existence. This summer some of the Cyclades are looking positively green. On the island of Hydra a resort hotel that closed two years ago because tourists got tired of going bath-less has now reopened with baths aplenty. Water, which once cost $1.40 a ton in the Cyclades, is now selling...