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Astronomers now believe that they have penetrated the veil of clouds enveloping that mysterious lady Venus. In the Astrophysical Journal, a pair of planet watchers using the equipment at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory announced that they have made what is probably the first direct observations of the planet's surface, and found it, as expected, dry and extremely hot. They measured temperatures up to a maximum of 675°F. at the equator and a minimum of 300° at the poles -far too hot for any known form of life...
...multi-leveled plot. Every character has a carefully plotted relationship to every other, a relationship often twisted by family ties and past animosities. If a production succeeds, every line crackles with the meaning behind it; the languid pace becomes for the audience, as it is for the characters, a veil that covers a nest of suspense...
...newsmen and Afro-Asian delegations, Boumedienne handled the rioters gently in the capital, though elsewhere his troops reportedly killed 30 or more. The crowds, led by Moscow-oriented Communist students, included Ben Bella supporters, emancipated women who fear that the deeply religious Boumedienne will bring back the traditional Moslem veil, as well as some industrial workers; on one occasion 100 uniformed police joined a protest march in Algiers...
...eyed young wife (Jane Fonda) glances at the would-be lover who has lured her to his flat. "Alfred, if you really love me, you won't keep me here," she murmurs, but her look belies her words. With frail remonstrations, she has already removed her hat, veil and gloves. Only moments remain until everything else comes...
...whirlwind. In short order, the Ottoman sultanate was abolished, the Moslem religion disestablished. The fez was outlawed, and the schools, the courts and the institution of marriage were freed from the control of the mullahs. Women won the right to vote, hold jobs, own property. Polygamy and the veil were eliminated. The alphabet was Romanized and names were Westernized-Mustafa Kemal took the opportunity to call himself Kemal Atatürk (Father of the Turks...