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...most of the tourist travel, was heavily damaged and will be out of service for months. In addition, the airport is situated in a disputed zone which both Turkish and Greek Cypriots now claim. In Famagusta, four major hotels along the town's "Golden Mile" of hostelries-the Venus Beach, Blue Sea, Salaminia Tower and Aspelia -were nearly destroyed. The Ledra Palace in Nicosia, acknowledged queen of Cypriot hotels, is a shell-pocked shambles. A construction program under which 35 additional hotels were to be built throughout the island has been suspended indefinitely...
Colonizing Venus. But mankind's increasing needs will soon take him beyond the moon to the nearby planets. Even Venus, with a surface temperature of nearly 1,000° F. and a thick atmosphere consisting largely of carbon dioxide, will not, says Berry, intimidate 21st century scientists. He notes that there is already a proposal to inject into the atmosphere of Venus hardy algae that feed on carbon dioxide. This would liberate oxygen, let heat escape from the planet's surface, and cause condensed water vapor to fall as rain. Oceans would form, plants could take root...
Later, before Venus becomes too crowded, earthlings might begin to build space cities-at first in orbit around the earth, then around the sun, perhaps using the minerals of the asteroid belt. But soon, even these resources will be exhausted, and the solution may well be to dismantle the giant planet Jupiter. How? Berry recalls a mind-boggling scheme to speed up Jupiter's rotation enough to tear off chunks of the planet; they would then be assembled in a thick band in orbit around the sun. The debris would reflect useful solar energy back toward earth and could...
...three-quarters of the way to Jupiter, will proceed to Saturn and provide the first close-up look at the ringed planet. From Mars, an orbiting Soviet spacecraft sent back new, detailed views of the Martian surface. At week's end, fresh from its reconnaissance of cloud-shrouded Venus, Mariner 10, now nearing Mercury, began transmitting its first pictures of the small planet that is closest...
More Secrets. Even as Mariner 10 approached Mercury (it was only 3.3 million miles away at week's end) U.S. scientists were examining the 3,500 pictures of Venus transmitted to earth by the spacecraft in February. Among other things, the computer-clarified photographs showed that 1) the thick Venusian clouds move 60 times as fast as the rotational velocity of the planet; 2) the Venusian poles are ringed by bright, most likely cooler regions; and 3) a huge "eye"-a break in the thick cloud cover -seems to have opened in the equatorial region, probably because of circulation...