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...atmosphere, high enough for a clear look at the dark-blue daytime sky where stars and planets glow with hardly diminished brilliance. Most important of all, it was high enough for the mechanized scope to scan accurately the infra red rays from the sun that were being bounced off Venus...
...luscious fresco depicting The Triumph of Venus looked down upon a group of delegates from the world's most prosperous nations as they gathered last week at Le Bocage, a lakeside villa in Geneva. The serious beginning of the Kennedy Round, after weeks and months of trial and trouble, was not exactly a triumph of love, but it was certainly a tribute to perseverance...
Burroughs feels very close to Hassan; he says Hassan seems to dictate portions of his novels. Vying to usurp Hassan's dominion over earth are lesser but formidable rival gods, including 1) the lecherous ones of Venus, who are dosing man with the Orgasm Drug to draw him into fatal orgies; 2) the totalitarian of the Crab Galaxy, who have ready giant ovens to bake humans into insectlike critters in a hivelike commune; and 3) the plain old hophead gods of Uranus, who have become radioactive themselves and are plotting to frizzle Earthmen with their own radioactivity...
...Mars & Venus. Westinghouse produces salt-water-conversion plants that can make 50 million gallons of fresh water a day and bacteria-killing bulbs that give no light the human eye can see, is also working on a nuclear engine that may some day power spaceships to Mars and Venus. Under Burnham, its money-losing heavy-electrical-equipment division is again profitable (thanks in part to price boosts), and its long-neglected consumer division will finish 1964 in the black ("but not by very much," says Burnham) for the first time in several years. Westinghouse has developed dozens of new consumer...
...partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant. In Henry VI, Part II, Jack Cade promises to "make it a felony to drink small beer." Desdemona reproaches herself for having falsely "indicted" Othello and "suborn'd" her soul as a witness against him. In Venus and Adonis, the temptress sounds as if she were writing a contract: "Set thy seal-manual on my wax-red lips...