Word: jovian
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Neighbor on the Doorstep. The Prime Minister, snorting with authority, arrived in Jovian grandeur; at one moment fuming over a misplaced cigar-cutter, the next good-humoredly caressing the Welch Fusiliers' goat mascot, ducking the television microphones. His body was stooped, his right leg dragged noticeably at every step. The man with him, Anthony Eden, suntanned and casual, shared little of Sir Winston's anticipation...
...planet's atmosphere, which is many thousands of miles thick and is made up of such unpleasant gases as methane and ammonia. At a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Dr. Yale Mintz of the University of California proposed a theory to account for one kind of Jovian spot...
...high atmosphere. The earth storms are masses of cold air that form just north of the equator, and probably to the south of it, too, at 30,000 ft. With each air-mass goes a sheet of high white cloud as much as 1,200 miles across. To a Jovian amateur astronomer, the clouds would look like brightly shining spots framing the earth's equator...
...earth's, its spots may be formed in a somewhat different way. Dr. Mintz suspects that Jupiter's white spots may be clouds of ammonia crystals floating high, like the cirrus clouds in the earth's atmosphere. Its dark spots may be places where the Jovian atmosphere is unusually clear...
...melody job (the "ping-pong") with a range of two octaves. Other refinements: "alto pans," "tune-booms." and "bass-booms." For their Manhattan audience. the Invaders beat their way through some celesta-like calypsos and a Mambo in F. One listener compared the sound to that of "a Jovian steel guitar." Consensus: certainly the best back-alley balalaika of the fall season...