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After a 117-day journey across 180 million miles of space, the spherical Venera 8, emblazoned with a hammer and sickle and a portrait of Lenin, plummeted toward the thin, sunlit crescent of Venus that is now visible from earth. Under its heat-resistant parachute, the 2,600-lb. spacecraft floated down through the thick, hot Venusian atmosphere. After it landed, it continued sending signals for about 50 minutes before it burned out on the scalding Venusian surface...
Pravda promptly hailed the second successful landing in eight Russian Venus probes as "another victory of Soviet science and technology." American scientists, who have sent two spacecraft flying past Venus, were quick to agree. By broadcasting from the surface 37 minutes longer than Venera 7 in December 1970, the latest space shot showed that the Soviet engineers had 1) designed a cooling system that could temporarily withstand the enormous surface temperatures of Venus (more than 900° F.) and 2) built a spacecraft that would not buckle under the planet's crushing surface pressures (about 100 times those...
...first act in general is a bit uneasy, with a cast not quite suited for political theatre performing for an audience looking for yuks. The second act, however, goes over better. Margery Cohen's readition of "That's Him," from One Touch of Venus, is impressively suited to Ogden Nash's lyrics. Lanning runs into trouble, however, with his "September Song." His jut-jawed, toothless version is obviously patterned after Walter Huston, but comes out sounding so much like Al Jolson that you expect him to genuflect and cry out "Mammy" at the end. Cohen and Lander do a witty...
...PRAYING MANTIS. After sexual congress, the female of this particular species devours the male. Dramatically, such a woman is a Venus's-flytrap, a castrating bitch who almost invariably renders the man sexually or psychically impotent. It is regarded as her demonic purpose...
...Advocate will present Barry Goldensohn, noted poet from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and Goddard College, tonight at 8 p.m. at the Advocate House, 21 South Street, Goldensohn's latest work is St, Venus Eve. This reading--the fourth in the Spring Informals Series--will be free and refreshments will be served...