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...line early-warning system against attack by enemy aircraft, the SAGE system to coordinate retaliation, and the BMEWS system for warning against enemy missiles. At M.I.T.'s Millstone Hill field station at Westford, Mass., is the 84-ft. dish antenna that has bounced radar pulses off the planet Venus. In all, M.I.T. operates $50.8 million worth of installations for the Government...
Swiftly, silently save for an occasional radio signal, the latest and greatest Soviet space vehicle continued speeding toward Venus...
...cloaked their feat with some mystery, are doling out the facts of the flight in dribbles to whet world curiosity. Last week Pravda published the latest installment of details and the first photo of "Venusnik.'' Biggest news: the satellite will probe deeply into the gravitational field of Venus-will pass within 62,000 miles of the cloud-shrouded planet on May 19 or May 20-then flash back data to earth and continue onward in an elliptical orbit around...
When it passes closest to Venus, the vehicle will be some 43.5 million miles from earth. At that point, "an accurately aimed parabolic antenna, for super-long-range communication, will open." To catch the distant signals, the Soviets have set up a special tracking and control center inside Russia, have also installed ' smaller telemetering stations on Soviet ships at sea. But there is some doubt that Venusnik will get through to earth. Last week the Soviets tried to reach it by radio and failed, said further attempts will be made "on subsequent days...
When Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning was produced in 1948, a great new hone seemed to have dawned for the English-speaking theater. None of Fry's other plays (A Phoenix Too Frequent, Venus Observed, The Dark Is Light Enough) matches Lady in language and, particularly, in dramatic coherence. But even at his weakest, Fry has led a triumphant one-man parade against the modern theater's main movements. Where virtually all other playwrights were committed to realism or surrealism. Fry wrote romantic and imaginative drama; where poetry had been banished from...