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Soon after Caltech astronomers began aiming long-range radar beams at Venus in 1962, they made an unexpected discovery. They found that the earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor spins not only more slowly than the other planets, but also in the opposite direction.*Long puzzled by Venus' eccentric behavior and dissatisfied with previous attempts to explain it, Geophysicist S. Fred Singer has now come forth with an ingenious theory...
Juan de Pareja is a remarkable painting, but it is not the best Velásquez. His Rokeby Venus at Britain's National Gallery, for instance, is far more important. Similarly, the Met's Aristotle is not the best Rembrandt. The dazzling prices such paintings fetch are merely reflections of the fact that there are few Old Masters left outside museums...
...intimacy. It is slightly nerve-racking to be close to a man whose electronic "beeper" may go off any second to warn him that he is wanted at the White House; and those black overstuffed sofas in the offices on the Hill are not the most comfortable bowers of Venus...
...miles from the landing site-provided no other calamity befalls it. The Russians themselves were not inclined to make any risky predictions. But they did say that in the future more advanced robots-so-called planetokhods-would explore not only the moon but more distant landscapes on Mars, Venus and Mercury...
CHILDHOOD is the only time and place that grows larger as it is left behind. Two weeks at the seashore appear, in memory, as a floodlit Oz. The first airplane ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill itas if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment...