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...equipped with suitable transmitting equipment, said Professor Lovell, the telescope could bounce a radar pulse off the moon and get an echo 2½ seconds later not as a faint pip but as a deafening roar. It might also get echoes from Venus and Mars. If there were a spaceship cruising near the moon, the telescope could track it easily. If spaceships ever cruise among the planets, such giant dishes may guide them through space like the radars that help airliners land on fogbound, present-day airports...
...Touch of Venus...
...report in the May 17 issue that National Geographic's new editor John La Gorce's office is "cyprus-paneled." How I envy him! Mine is cypress-paneled, but lucky La Gorce's is paneled with the birthplace of Venus...
...Venus has lit her lamp...
Themselves dealing with a patchwork of old legends, Latouche and Moross have yet contrived something attractively individual. The Golden Apple is much less satire meant to strike home than a front-porch-and-parlor version of Homer. The local Venus wins the golden apple in a pie-baking contest. The face that launched a thousand ships now sets perhaps a thousand tongues awagging. Scylla and Charybdis are a slick pair of brokers. The famed vanished song the sirens sang turns out to have...