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...California's Pat Brown, who stuck pretty much to state issues in his triumphant re-election campaign against Richard Nixon, was not about to change now. Brown laced his speech with specific state proposals. They ranged from the removal of some 840.000 low-income persons from the state income tax rolls to the strict control of highway billboards-"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50; when a man throws a billboard across a view, he is liable to be richly rewarded"-and at least a moratorium...
...years when the likes of Joe Stalin or Hitler was chosen, there were many angry readers who did not grasp our definition: a man or woman who dominated the news that year and left an indelible mark - for good or ill - on history. Khrushchev was allowed to look triumphant the year of the Sputnik (1957), but Hitler in the year of Munich (1938) already had so much blood on his hands that he was made a small figure playing a hymn of hate on a giant organ - as if the editors wanted to be doubly sure that Hitler could...
Across 36 million miles of space, the incredibly intricate instruments of Mariner II flashed their coded reports. But what had the spacecraft seen and recorded in its triumphant dash past Venus (TIME, Dec. 21)? Though the answers will be as many and varied as Mariner's many experimental observations, the first data deciphered by scientists seemed disappointingly empty: as far as Mariner's magnetometer could tell, Venus has no magnetic field. But even this negative finding has fascinating implications. It hints that Venus may be a more attractive hunk of space real estate than scientists have supposed...
Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon's son Orestes is spirited to safety by his tutor, but the dead king's daughter Electra is held in duress till she comes of age, and then is wed precautiously to a poor farmer-the sons of such a man, Aegisthus reasons, cannot hope to occupy a throne, and therefore would not dare to kill him. Vain precautions. Orestes returns secretly and at Electra's furious insistence, slaughters the usurper...
...Then the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, which built Manner II, relayed its actual voice-an eerie, organ-like music. It would take several weeks to turn the signals into information about he temperature, mass, atmosphere and magnetic field of Venus, but the scientists of JPL were already justly triumphant. For the first time man had made close contact with an alien planet. Said Britain's famous radio astronomer, Sir Bernard Lovell who had been following Mariner II toward Venus with the great telescope at Jodrell Bank: "This is by far the most splendid scientific achievement in space...