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...spacecraft would have seen a spectacular sight. Even from 500,000 miles, Venus would be a crescent twice as high as the crescent moon. Because of its high reflectivity and nearness to the sun, it would be much brighter than any moon. As Mariner II swept nearer, its rider would have seen the crescent, growing and thickening, its glare waxing blindingly bright, until it was 35 times the diameter of the full moon as seen from the earth and more than 13,000 times as brilliant...
Millionaires' Roost. Taylor seldom appears at Argus' mausoleumlike Toronto offices, much preferring to work out of the comfortable gatehouse of his 600-acre suburban Toronto estate. A rider and horse lover since college, he operates Canada's most successful racing stable on his own (says Partner Phillips: "I detest horses"), has put Canada's horse racing on its feet by reorganizing it into a few big, profitable tracks. As a private investment, he is developing Lyford Cay in Nassau into a restful roost for such multi millionaires as Henry Ford II and CBS Chairman William Paley...
...small change of language chink and chime into high melody. His verse often seemed as easy to read as McGuffey's Reader, but it contained universalities that obscure symbolists rarely attempt. In a time when despair is popular. Frost was grimly, gallantly optimistic. He saw man as a rider, "Mounted bareback on the earth ... his small fist buried in the bushy hide": But though it runs unbridled...
Onscreen as onstage, not the least of Jumbo's pleasures is its plot, shamelessly snookered from Shakespeare. Romeo (Stephen Boyd) is a daring young man on a flying trapeze. Juliet (Doris Day) is a bareback rider. A cruel fate divides them. His father (Dean Jagger) owns a circus, her father (Jimmy Durante) owns a circus-and the circuses are rivals. Romeo, sent incognito to swindle Juliet's father, falls in love with the lass instead. Duty at first conquers love, but in the end schmalz conquers...
...already earned $283,000 for French Hotelman François Dupre, who owns Paris' Plaza-Athenee, Montreal's Ritz-Carlton, a breeding farm in Normandy and a string of 60 race horses. Dupre's jockey for the International: Yves Saint-Martin, France's top rider, a vise-handed craftsman who, at 21, already ranks with the world's best. Even so, Match II went out as a 6-to-1 long shot...