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After four-month journeys through space, Russia's Venus 4 and the U.S. Mariner 5 spacecraft will both reach Venus this week. No matter what the space probes find, most scientists have already written off the possibility that Venusian life exists; the planet's apparent surface temperature is approximately 800° F., above the melting point of lead...
...Clouds. Of the planetary environments investigated so far by telescope and space probe, the scientists write in Nature, conditions in the atmosphere of Venus resemble those on earth more than anywhere else. In the lower Venusian clouds, they say, there is carbon dioxide, water and sunshine-prerequisites for photosynthesis. The temperatures are chilly, but above freezing. If small amounts of minerals were stirred up to the clouds from Venus' surface, the scientists believe that an indigenous biology-based entirely on biochemical principles observed on earth-could exist...
...time she had finished bubbling and won her Oscar, Sandy's market value had more than doubled, to $125,000 a picture. A garden-variety Hollywood Venus would henceforth instruct her agent to go after only big-budget, reserved-seat extravaganzas and leading men of maximum candlepower. Not Sandy. Her concern is not the price but the property, not her image but her interest in the work. She settled on The Fox, based on a D. H. Lawrence novella, in which she plays a lesbian, hardly a career-booster...
...plan by Canadian Poet John Glassco. His work ably mimics Beardsley's writing, giving credence to Glassco's boast that "the prose may be imitated but never the drawings." He is right. The text is less remarkable than the illustrations-among them a portrait of Venus in a startling likeness of Jacqueline Kennedy...
...part of Austria, the son of a police commissioner. His early books were histories, which critics found competent enough. But when he turned to fiction, he was a Jekyll gone Hyde. His short stories and most of his 90 novels all dealt with depravity. The theme: girl beats boy. Venus in Furs, his most widely read book, was typical of the rest, though hardly as explicit as some of today's sex fare: Wanda von Dunayev, an imperious Amazon, swaggers through a series of near pornographic episodes, whip in hand, abject lover at her feet. Domestic Treaty. In real...