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...should not have emphasized Bashir's first pair of shoes or his vow on the Koran. You would do the same before flying to Venus, if you held the Bible sacred...
...Snark. A refinement of the Snark's star-tracking guidance system now helps to guide the Polaris-firing submarines and the Air Force's air-to-ground Skybolt missile; it will also ride on the Project Ranger moon shoot and the Project Mariner probes to Mercury and Venus. "Ultimately," says Jones, "the same technology will serve on long-distance airliners and ocean liners." Work on the Snark also convinced Jones of the need for a pulse-taking computer to run a continuous inspection on every missile. From that experience Northrop developed its intelligent Datico, which checks...
...American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his great rival John Trumbull was able to stir up enough scandalized protests almost to ruin poor Vanderlyn forever. When William Page tried to exhibit his 1862 Venus in Boston, there was such an outcry that the painting was whisked from public view. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where on Ladies' Day the Greek statues were draped, the great Thomas Eakins posed a male and female model together and as an upshot of the incident...
...Most Modest Venus. The earliest work is by James Peale, the brother of the more famous Charles Willson Peale...
James's picture, painted around 1800, is a classical Venus, treated so gingerly that the figures are the essence of modesty. Boston's William Rimmer, though he was a physician and anatomist, and though he was a sculptor who must have known the classic Greek and Roman models, felt constrained to leave out the genitals when he painted a floating male figure in Evening, Fall of Day. Ralph Blakelock, who ended his days trying to paint million-dollar bills in a Middletown, N.Y., asylum, possessed a talent that still has the power to haunt. His small Wood Nymph...