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Atmosphere Profile. America's 540-Ib. Mariner 5 took a less direct approach, swinging to within 2,480 miles of the Venusian surface and then briefly disappearing behind the planet before heading toward a permanent orbit around the sun. As Mariner drew close, its instruments searched for a Venusian magnetic field and an accompanying radiation belt, and peered down into the upper atmosphere to determine its height and temperature profile. As the spacecraft swung behind Venvis, its radio signals passed through the Venusian atmosphere on their way to earth. By measuring the effect the intervening gases...
Even the obvious fact that one was Mexican and the other Negro would have excited little interest - unless someone informed the passer-by that Ines Perez the 5-ft. 4-in., 149-lb. Mexican passer and Jerry Levias, the 5-ft. 10-in., 175-Ib. Negro receiver, were not junior high schoolers at all. They were members of the Southern Methodist University varsity. The reaction to that news might well have been utter disbelief...
GENTLE BEN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A 650-Ib. black bear is the star of this adventure series set in the Florida Everglades. Premiere...
...their own economy-class air tickets-and pay later if necessary. One major evacuation point was Beirut, where hundreds of Americans straggled in from Syria to join 3,000 Lebanon-based U.S. civilians, half of whom clustered on the campus of the American University. Each carried only one 44-Ib. bag, plus two blankets and 24 hours' worth of food. Many women showed up carrying small dogs in large handbags. With the city in blackout, there was a moment of near panic when saboteurs blew up a Shell Oil storage tank several miles away. In the guttering glare...
...Though the U.S. is the world's foremost copper producer, it consumes more than its mines deliver. Using its defense stockpile as a club, the Government keeps the price of domestic copper (currently 38? per Ib.) well below world prices...