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FRIDAY: Magnetic Monster, 1953. When witch hunting for Russian Reds and Martian Greens alike was getting underway in earnest, Channel...
...usual, the Russians are tight-lipped about the project. But Western observers believe that the spacecraft might release a smaller lander. If so, that would mean a rerun of last year's Mars 3 mission, when a TV-equipped instrument package was dropped on the Martian surface. The unit ceased sending signals after 20 seconds-possibly because it was buffeted by the Red Planet's hurricane-force winds. By contrast, the U.S.'s Mariner 9 spacecraft, launched at approximately the same time, worked for almost a year while in orbit around Mars, taking more than...
...solar mixing does occur, it would also affect other planets of the solar system. In Nature, Carl Sagan of Cornell and Andrew Young of Caltech have suggested that fluctuating solar output could explain such Martian mysteries as the river-bed-like channels recently photographed by the Mariner 9 spacecraft. Martian water, now locked firmly in the frozen poles, presumably would have flowed freely during warmer times. Sagan and Young go further. Suspecting that our sun is not unique in its quirky behavior, they checked other nearby stars. In the cluster Praesepe, they found a number of stars that varied widely...
...Damn Yankees. The unlikely mixture of music, baseball, and the Faust legend is sheer delight. Gwen Verdon demonstrates why Lola gets exactly what she wants, and a pre-Martian Ray Walston makes a slippery devil. Natives of Washington, D.C., enjoy this film more than any other viewers, for it is only those maligned sufferers who have spent hundreds of nights listening to the Senators lose and waiting for the cool Canadian air masses to move in who have considered selling their souls for an air conditioner and just one win over the Yankees, not to mention a pennant. Channel...
...Star Trek memorabilia is brisk, and even the Smithsonian Institute has gotten into the game, securing a copy of the pilot show and several props. For the noninstitutional collector-investor, film clips are highly popular and those showing the usually stoic Mr. Spock smiling are worth their weight in Martian gold. (Publicity photos are also popular, but some of the more ambitious fans photograph the show for themselves while it's on their television screens. Another big seller is sound recordings of the show, and Trekies have been known to memorize entire scripts. Most popular, however, are the properties from...