Word: rays
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Molten Pools. Venera was also equipped with a gamma-ray detector that should provide the first on-site evidence as to the composition and structure of the Venusian "soil." That evidence is not likely to be very inviting. As late as the 1950s, many astronomers still thought that conditions on cloud-shrouded Venus might favor life, but by now they know otherwise. Rotating once every 243 days in a direction opposite to that of the other planets, Venus has a surface that University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper says might resemble a fresh volcanic field, with boiling sulfur springs...
...Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story, Fischer's rough edges and temperamental demands mean only that he is in fighting trim. Fischer is usually at his best while complaining, says Kennedy. Kennedy himself has been a chessophile since the age of nine, and still spends an occasional evening at an all-night chess parlor...
...fact that I am shown wearing one of the dresses is insignificant. What is important is that they were all designed by very dear friends of mine-Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie, two of the most talented designers in America today. In addition to designing all of my clothes and those of many other celebrities, Aghayan and Mackie have a ready-to-wear collection that is carried by every major department and specialty store in the country...
There are also medical ruses. An X-ray film showing someone else's debilitating growth of tuberculosis often does the trick. The only catch is that a medical examination is required for three years in a row before a permanent medical exemption is granted-all of which can cost up to 500,000 piasters ($1,200). For a time it was not uncommon for boys to chop off the first two fingers of their gun hand; that practice ended when the military decided to conscript the fingerless youths for porters. Today, some desperate draftees dig a shallow hole, toss...
...RAY FAIR, 29, a Princeton assistant professor, has focused primarily on providing McGovern with short-term forecasts of the economy's performance and drafting full-employment plans. Along with fellow Princetonian William Branson, he is the author of the Senator's proposal for a $10 billion pump-priming infusion of federal funds into public projects that would, according to their projections, lower the unemployment rate from 5.5% to 4% or less. Brisk and talkative, Fair has been gratified to see many of his memos appear almost verbatim in McGovern's speeches and congressional testimony...