Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomers are full of facts about far-distant stars, but they know almost nothing about Venus, the earth's nearest (26 million miles) planetary neighbor. Its size, density and period of rotation are all uncertain, and no one has glimpsed its surface, which is always covered with clouds as opaque as marshmallows. In the latest Astrophysical Journal, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory tells how he learned at least a few facts about cloud-wrapped Venus...
...Adamski, a self-described Southern California "philosopher, student, teacher, saucer researcher" and former short-order cook who claimed (in last year's Flying Saucers Have Landed) that he stood beside a saucer on the California desert in November 1952 and talked (telepathically) with a tanned, short visitor from Venus...
...political question. He wanted to know, says Allingham ("Needless to say I could not understand his words, but his gestures were clear enough"), whether the Earth people would start another war. Allingham says he was only able to shrug hopefully in reply. After indicating that he had visited both Venus and the Moon says Allingham, the Martian also asked if Earthmen would soon reach the Moon. When Allingham nodded, the Martian's broad brow clouded up. "And who can blame them?" asks the author. "We have not yet proved ourselves fit to rule our own planet, let alone visit...
...love with him. When she cooed, "Should you like to see me waltz with any man but yourself?", he replied that "he should have no objection whatever, upon which with no more ado the fair Lady whips a knife into her own side." Fortunately, observes a cynical onlooker: "Venus . . . interposed in the shape of a pair of stays, so that the blow was by no means fatal...
...rather plain Venus in a gown, bending to teach her little boy how to nock an arrow. The playfulness of the piece in no way modifies its classic harmony...