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Fresh Air. The aborigines, who called themselves Tasaday (pronounced Taw-sawdai), did well to tremble. The most primitive human beings so far discovered on this guilty planet had turned to face the 20th century. There was culture shock on both sides. The Tasaday discovered evil; the rest of us discovered good in a form so pure it seemed almost incredible to a civilization that had long since abandoned Rousseau's conception of the Noble Savage. Biblically reminded that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," assured by anthropologists that Homo sapiens is descended from a killer...
...strained fictions have always seemed a lot of fuss to ichthyologists. Why bother to wake the creatures of unimaginably distant geologic ages when you can find, in a condition essentially unchanged for 63 million years, a creature cruising handily off every beach in the world who once shared the planet with dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs and is as strange, unpredictable and dangerous as those bad old boys...
Venus has long been an irresistible target for Russian space scientists, who have sent at least nine unmanned probes arcing toward the cloud-shrouded planet -compared with only four sent by the U.S. Last week, as Venus moved into a favorable position once more (as it does every 18 months), the Soviets launched two more ships on the four-month, 230 million-mile journey...
...town house (Kenny is her second husband, her first marriage was a brief misalliance), Nicky is a happy lotus-eater. She and Kenny, who is pretty rich himself, are the hosts with the most publicity. They throw a last-minute dinner for any friend who drops in from "another planet," and "we let people wander all over the house." Nicky also gives tea parties (replete with cucumber sandwiches) in their "Kenny Gothic" drawing room, a jungle of sculpture, animal skins, Chinese tea chests and scattered bibelots...
Against all odds - and Director J. Lee Thompson (The Guns ofNavarone, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes) makes sure there are plenty - she makes a quick, heartbreaking sketch of the sad, saving reveries of age. She has all the unplanned grace and unguarded, surprised emotion of a nonprofessional, and it is a pleasure to salute...