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...forgetting roughly half his lines, filling in the gaps with Chinese proverbs of his own invention. But Lahr eventually learned his part, and Producer Ellis began arrangements to take The Beauty Part to Manhattan this winter, bringing Perelman back to Broadway for the first time since One Touch of Venus closed 16 years...
...were sending a manned expedition to Venus, we wouldn't know whether to send a paleo-botanist, a mineralogist, or a deep sea diver," said Carl Sagan, noted expert on Venus from the University of California, yesterday...
...informal talk on the atmosphere and surface of Venus given at the Harvard Observatory, Sagan noted that four theories of the nature of the planet had been held within the last 50 years. The earliest concluded that Venus was a planet shrouded with clouds of water vapor, hiding a surface that was nothing but swampy rain forest...
...opposite view was held, and Venus was thought to be a desert planet scoured by constant sand-storms. In 1950, Donald A. Menzel and Fred L. Whipple suggested that the entire planet was covered with ocean. Some time later, the British astronomer Fred Hoyle postulated instead an ocean...
...studies. Horses and sheep provide blood for scientists anxious to study rabies and staphylococcal infections. Rice rats, Mongolian gerbils and Egyptian spiny mice are used in nutrition studies; some mice are inbred for as many as 99 generations so that researchers can study the mechanisms involved in tissue transplants. Venus clams by the dozen sacrifice their hearts to the study of the chemistry of the nervous and muscular systems...