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Physicist Louis D. Kaplan of the University of Nevada and JPL, who helped design Mariner II's infra-red experiment, thinks that at ground level, Venus' atmospheric pressure may be 10 to 20 times that of Earth. Its dry, unbreathable air contains perhaps 10% carbon dioxide (v. .03% for Earth) and probably a little nitrogen. The clouds are so dense that the surface is probably dark. Radar waves bounced off Venus indicate rather uncertainly that there may be both mountains and smooth places, as on the earth...
Hydrocarbon Clouds. The famous Venusian clouds remain a tantalizing mystery. Some astronomers believe that they are fine dust, kicked up from the surface by tremendous winds in the dense atmosphere, but Professor Kaplan has a more picturesque theory. He thinks they are hydrocarbon droplets similar to the water droplets in earthly clouds. The droplets condense in the cool top of the atmosphere, but stay in vapor form in the lower parts, where the temperature rises above 200° F. So the dark Venusian surface has clear, compressed, oily air. Infra-red rays from the sun penetrate both clouds and atmosphere...
...noted Israeli scholar has been named visiting professor of Hebrew and Jewish History at the University next year. Jacob Kats, dean of the Elieser Kaplan School of Economics and Social Sciences at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, tought school in Palestine-Israel from 1934 until 1950, when he joined the faculty off Hebrew University. He has been dean there since...
...doubles matches, Sullivan and Ripley beat Moglen and Bartos 6-3, 6-4, while Woodbury and Walter coasted by Harley Frankel and Hank Kaplan 6-3, 6-1. Adelman and John Vinton completed the shut-out by polishing off Bob Dorman and Seth Schein...
...There are over 100 distortions in the the film," Kaplan asserted, "but it would do no good to list all the errors, the mistakes, and the lies." Since the purpose of the film was to prove that the demonstration was a communist activity, "in spired, organized, and led by Communists," Kaplan concentrated on proving the contrary...