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Laboratory Match. Measured by the 180-million-mile voyage of the space craft Mariner II that took it within a scant 21,000 miles of Venus (TIME, Jan. 4, 1963), the telescope's short as cent seems puny indeed, and it cost the sponsoring Air Force an insignificant $100,000. But the data it collected before it parachuted back to Earth promises to stir up a lively astronomical argument. Mariner confirmed earlier radiotelescope observations and reported that the Venusian surface is far too hot and dry to support any Earth-type life. The flying telescope got a vastly different...
...intellectually promiscuous Asian world, the crystalline unity of Buddha's thought had scant chance of escaping the taint of temporal power...
Frei (pronounced fray) had no illusions. "The facts cannot be cloaked," he said. Chile's foreign debt is $2.3 billion, with amortization and interest alone swallowing 50% of export earnings. Gold and dollar reserves are down to a scant $160 million. And then there is inflation. "My great enemy," groans Frei. "From last November to this November it climbed 47%. This cannot...
...Jersey: Incumbent Harrison A. Williams Jr., 44, the state's first Democratic Senator since 1936, expects to profit from an anti-Barry "frontlash" in his second-term bid. Challenger Bernard M. Shanley, 61, a former aide to Dwight Eisenhower, is trying hard, but with scant chance...
Good fortune, as well as hard work, has always contributed heavily to the political and business success of Illinois' Charles Percy (TIME cover, Sept. 18). And in his bid to unseat Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, luck still rides with Chuck. Just a scant few weeks before the election, the Kerner Administration finds itself involved in a much headlined scandal...