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Each in its way makes a contrast between worldly and moral achievement. In A Promising Career, an inhumanly professional bachelor pursues his ambitions until his mistress, a Venus' fly trap passing as a violet, involves him in a scandal, ruins his career, sees him exiled to Ghana, where he hits the bottle, hits bottom, and discovers that he is human after all. In The Clever One, a successful, coldly unlikable lawyer meets an aging courtesan who marks him down for marriage and alimony, then sweet-cheats him at every turn until he finds her out, throws...
With the new Haystack antenna that can project a narrow beam of 8,000-megacycle, 1.5-inch microwaves that behave just like light. Dr. Shapiro plans to follow the planet Venus around its orbit, accurately measuring the time that the microwaves take to reach their target and bounce back. While Venus is well away from the sun, that time can be translated into the planet's calculated distance on its well-known orbit. But as Venus begins to swing behind the sun, the microwaves will pass through the strongest part of the sun's gravitational field. If Einstein...
Alfie woos and walks out on six birds. One bird is a nesting sort and makes Alfie a father. His idea of child support is to buy a teddy bear. Another is a Venus flytrap. Still another likes to slave for Alfie, and it touches him, but workers are neuters. "Look at it -scrub, scrub, scrub...
Laboratory Match. Measured by the 180-million-mile voyage of the space craft Mariner II that took it within a scant 21,000 miles of Venus (TIME, Jan. 4, 1963), the telescope's short as cent seems puny indeed, and it cost the sponsoring Air Force an insignificant $100,000. But the data it collected before it parachuted back to Earth promises to stir up a lively astronomical argument. Mariner confirmed earlier radiotelescope observations and reported that the Venusian surface is far too hot and dry to support any Earth-type life. The flying telescope got a vastly different...
...Strong also doubts the theory that the carbon dioxide known to be present in the atmosphere of Venus must trap sunlight by a "greenhouse effect" and necessarily make the surface too hot for living organisms. The ice crystals in the clouds, he believes, are so highly reflective that they bounce much of the sun's energy back into space before it gets anywhere near the planet's surface. Thus layers of the Venusian atmosphere may be comparatively cool, perhaps as cool as similar layers on the Earth...