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Mysterious Spot. As it passes within 100,000 miles of Jupiter, Pioneer F will conduct a total of 13 experiments and radio the results back to mission controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. A complex array of detectors, which poke out of the cone-shaped spacecraft like antennae on a monstrous insect, will measure, among other things, magnetic fields, ultraviolet and infrared radiation, cosmic rays, meteoroid density and the intensity of the solar wind (charged atomic particles streaming from...
Come over next week if you want to poke around. There's a lot to find...
Come over next week if you want to poke around...
Playing amateur archaeologist among the Aztec ruins, Brill tries to poke home the author's moral: Look at what becomes of people who worship gold, the "sun's excrement," instead of the sun. Alas, Bourjaily's real message is this: Nobody is likely to become extinct faster than American novelists trying to rework Lost Generation formulas in the age of Aquarius...
...songs are so somber. Many poke good-humored fun at life's petty annoyances-some universal, some strictly Soviet. In a young husband's complaint, Nozhkin sings in an easy, confidential tone of how he and his wife bought a summer dacha and an expensive German shepherd to guard it: "The dog doesn't sleep because it's guarding the dacha, and I don't sleep because I'm guarding the dog." "I work like a horse and get paid like a donkey," he adds. "All day long I run from the nursery...