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On July 2, 1954, Mars will come closer to the earth (40 million miles) than it has in 15 years. Astronomers look forward to this event with enthusiasm, and are already planning their summer's campaign. This month the "Mars Committee," representing leading U.S. observatories and universities, will meet...
The science-fiction writers, of course, have long since peopled Mars with subtle civilizations, beautiful women with golden eyes, and half-invisible ships sailing on red-sand seas. Some writers, bored with Mars, have gone on to other planets or even to distant galaxies billions of light-years away, where...
To such imaginative pioneers Mars is not very interesting, but astronomers feel differently. Except for the unrewarding Moon, Mars is the only object in the sky whose surface can be studied. Mercury is too close to the sun, Pluto is too far from the' earth, and the other planets...
Mars floats seminaked, wrapped in its thin blue atmosphere as if in a transparent negligee. Yellow clouds, perhaps of dust, drift across it slowly. The white polar icecaps wax and wane with the swing of the Martian seasons, and its surface changes color, as if with seasonal vegetation.
It is incredible that a show--and an amateur one to boot--could maintain so high a level of music and lyrics as I saw last night. And yet Eiffel Trifle goes from one high point to the next with the most minor of sags. Only an occasional bit of...