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...Very Damn Rude." The portrait arrived back at the Hurd ranch-c.o.d. Nevertheless, Mrs. Johnson persuaded Hurd to try a smaller portrait, 30 in. by 36 in., based on the President's favorite photograph. The picture was taking shape when, to Hurd's dismay, he discovered that "that photograph was in every little bureaucrat's office in America-including the post office in San Patricio. I couldn't plainly copy such a picture. I lost interest." However, he finished the large portrait and shipped it off to Washington. Several months later he got a letter...
Except for the black sky in the background, the photograph might have been mistaken for a composite of the scenic grandeur of Grand Canyon and the barren desolation of the Badlands of South Dakota. But when it was flashed unexpectedly onto a screen at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Boston last week, sophisticated space scientists and engineers recognized the terrain immediately. It was a spectacular closeup shot of lunar landscape. That photograph of the moon's Crater of Copernicus, said NASA Scientist Martin Swetnick, is "one of the great pictures of the century...
Stupendous Collision. To University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, one of the world's leading lunar experts, Orbiter's photograph seemed to confirm his theory that the 1,000-ft.-high mountains in the center of Copernicus were partially formed by volcanic activity. Scattered over their slopes, he says, are humps similar to the cinder cones found on major terrestrial volcanoes. The picture also clearly shows that the floor of the crater is remarkably flat. To Kuiper, this indicates that the subsurface was once in a fluid or plastic state, and that it solidified, causing the crater floor...
Ironically, Orbiter's shot of Copernicus was merely a byproduct of its assignment to photograph 13 possible lunar landing sites for astronauts. Of the 211 photographs it has taken while orbiting the moon, Copernicus and twelve others were shot for "housekeeping"-to advance the roll of film and keep the camera in working order during long intervals when Orbiter was not over one of the possible landing sites. Though NASA did not release any of the other housekeeping shots by week's end, an astronomer who was allowed to see them reported that those taken while the satellite...
Even in these publishing days when anything go-goes, it is not often that a character from a novel can show up in a photograph on the front of the jacket all splayed out upside down on an opulently embroidered bedspread, wearing one slipper, two fancy garters, and what used to be called a ball gown. Night Games, however, was made as a film before it could be read as a novel, so the movie, starring Ingrid Thulin, provided the dust-jacket come-on. The rest of the come-on is Mai Zetterling, a talented and glamorous 41-year...