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...paper presented to an American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Astrophysicist Lewis Kaplan disclosed that spectrograms of the Martian atmosphere, made when the planet was 70 million miles from the earth last year, suggest that Mars has a concentration of hydrogen compounds in its atmosphere 1,000 times greater than the earth's. Those compounds probably include methane derivatives and possibly methane itself-a finding that could be significant because methane, or "marsh gas,"* is produced on earth by anaerobic bacteria, which do not require oxygen to exist. Even if the Martian methane...
Strenuous Climate. Kaplan's discovery was made possible by French Astronomers Pierre and Janine Connes, who developed new equipment at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence that enabled them to produce the most detailed spectrograms of Mars ever made. Originally intended to reveal data about atmospheric pressure at the Martian surface, the spectrograms were of such high quality that they revealed unexpected absorption lines which had been indistinguishable in spectrograms recorded by less sensitive instruments. After careful analysis, Kaplan concluded that many of the absorption lines could have been caused only by reflected sunlight passing through hydrogen compounds...
MICHAEL L. KAPLAN New York City...
...problem lies in the text and in Kaplan's handling of it. The play comes from a tradition of academic farce in an era when the celibate Fellows of English universities had to blow off steam some way. It is more "important" as a source of Elizabethan comedy than worthwhile in itself. To play it completely straight would be the kiss of death...
...Kaplan has played it completely crooked, milking laughs from every possible source--Charles Schulz, Ballantine beer signs, karate and sumo, and cute animals (it really is a charming cat)--except the text. The lines are raced through in a variety of singsongs. This, combined with the broad accents of the actors and the twisted rhymes of the text, make them nearly unintelligible. The production's only continuity lies in running gags...