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This week U.S. spacemen were, soberly predicting that, with winged Explorer VI opening the door to the second generation of satellites, a shoot at Mars and Venus cannot be too far away...
...polar regions. But the deadly, invisible streams of the new-found radiation lash through the polar holes, as well as through the whole solar system. Space vehicles making the short run to the moon may be able to pick quiet intervals between the flares, but voyages to Mars or Venus will take several months. During this considerable period a flare is likely to spray the ship and fry its passengers unless they are protected by tons of shielding material...
...only one or two plays of stature amid a morass of mediocrity. As a matter of fact, Mr. Capp, it was only after you disassociated yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. He lost money; and last summer he lowered the quality of his choices somewhat, and still lost. So he threw in the towel...
...more recent times, Gaughin and Picasso have used Renaissance and Egyptian figures as inspirations, said Brendel. The Medici Venus statue was the basis for one of Gaughin's figures in his Tahitian paintings, while Picasso has used an ancient statue of a kneeling Venus in his series of paintings: La Comedie Humaine...
...clouds, but many reported clear skies. The films, tapes and other records that they made do not look like much, but with careful analysis in the next few months a better picture of the Venusian atmosphere will be assembled. When the first space traveler from earth attempts to explore Venus, he will know much about what to expect, and for that he can thank winking Regulus so many trillion miles away...