Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four additional Mars probes now planned by NASA. In 1971, during the next close approach of Mars, the U.S. will send two photographic spacecraft into orbit around the planet for at least 90 days each. The orbiters will take a series of pictures showing seasonal changes on Mars, map the entire surface and enable scientists to choose likely looking spots for future landings. High priority will be given to sites with the warmest temperatures and greatest traces of moisture...
...anyway, with so many better possibilities around? As one possible successor, Lockard proposes the oriental tree shrew, which is readily tamed, breeds promiscuously throughout the year and, on the evolutionary map, lies nearer to man than does the rat. To focus on the rat, when less than 1% of all species has ever been impounded in a laboratory, says Lockard, is like examining only the earth and then generalizing about the universe...
...Map Making. The Broadway book had the grace to mock itself. In the end Charity was blessed by a good fairy -who turned out to be a costumed pitch woman plugging a CBS-TV show. Peter Stone's hollow adaptation takes itself seriously. Charity, maundering through Central Park, converses with a bunch of flower children who teach her the power of Love...
...achingly stagy. Whenever he cannot provide a valid transition, Fosse makes the frame a mammoth still picture of his star -strictly for those interested in the north, south, east and west faces of Mt. MacLaine. Regardless of how attractive the faces are, that is not film making, it is map making...
When the boy was young, he had tried holding on to philosophies. For a week he would say to himself, "I am a stoic." The next week, "I am a Christian." The next, "I am an existentialist." And he would map out systems of thought, meanings for life, and ardently believe in each, until it gave way to the next...