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Gazing down from the ceiling of the art-and antique-filled office in Los Angeles' Century City is an oversized, backlighted color transparency of a Botticelli Venus. Sitting below the goddess of love in a thronelike chair, once owned by Rudolph Valentino, is Marvin Mitchelson, a divorce lawyer who has made millions off love gone wrong in Hollywood. Since the mid-1960s, Mitchelson, 50, has piled up a long list of financially rewarding victories in celebrity divorce battles, sometimes representing big- name clients (Rhonda Fleming, Connie Stevens, Red Buttons) but more often fighting for the showfolks' spouses. Among...
Following the U.S.'s successful exploration of the planet Venus with multiple Pioneer spacecraft, the Soviet Union last week landed an unmanned probe of its own on the Venusian surface. Unlike the American ships, which were primarily designed to study the Venusian atmosphere, Venera 12's lander also transmitted data from the surface for an impressive 110 min. before succumbing to the 480° C (900° F) temperature. As usual, the Soviets mixed in a little politics, placing an image of Lenin on the planet. Another Soviet craft, Venera 11, was set to reach this hot world...
Following the release of its first probe, the Pioneer Venus 2 spacecraft this week was scheduled to toss off three additional instrument-crammed packages. The four probes, as well as the mother ship, will arrive at Venus on Dec. 9. All five are aimed to descend over different areas of the planet, so that they will gather the widest possible range of data, including temperatures, composition, density and distribution of the atmosphere. They will be passing through hostile territory. At higher altitudes the probes will be whipped by winds with velocities that may be as high...
...remain operative under these harsh conditions, the probes are outfitted with, among other things, tough heat-resistant diamond and sapphire windows through which their instruments should be able to peer with impunity. What they detect will provide a trove of important new information about Venus' atmosphere. By learning more about the meteorology of this kindred yet vastly different planet, scientists may gain new insights into terrestrial climate and weather...
Preceding Pioneer 2 will be another Venus-bound vehicle: the unmanned Pioneer Venus 1 spacecraft. Though launched almost three months before Pioneer 2, it has followed a more sweeping trajectory around the sun and will just barely nose out its sister ship, arriving at Venus on Dec. 4. Its assignment is different too; it will ease into orbit around Venus, and in addition to scanning the atmosphere below with an array of instruments, it will beam powerful radar signals through the Venusian clouds and bounce them off the surface. Pioneer 1 will then radio the radar data back to earth...