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Approach with Caution. Astronauts who plot long journeys in space assume that such dull, preliminary steps have already been taken. Later steps are more fun. To reach the moon from an artificial orbit is elementary stuff; voyages to a planet take more figuring. One plan for a trip to Venus, for instance, uses space ships from an orbit around the earth to establish a base on the moon (see diagram). A special ship then takes off from the moon at a moment when Venus is considerably behind both earth and moon on its shorter and faster orbit around...
Such larger bodies as Mars and Venus, both powerful gravitational whirlpools, should be approached with caution. But Mars and Venus both have atmospheres, which the space men plan to use as frictional buffers. Their ships would circle in the atmospheric fringes until they were moving slowly enough to land. An alternate plan: cruise warily around the planet and send small space-dinghies down to explore its surface...
...Bach, Mozart, Handel back on the loom," Landowska buzzed in her book Music of the Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo to give her a wasp waist, or if one tried to twist Apollo's nose in order to give him more character?" The first thing to do was to remove the overstuffed romantic upholstery from the original music. The second was to rediscover the true harpsichord...
...style was just as interesting. Most art historians have put the antique Roman painters down as stiff copyists of the Greeks. But the Pompeian Venus has an easy flow of line, more than a small touch of expressionism-as if the Pompeians had begun to develop a style of their own just before the destruction. Maiuri placed it as the work of an unknown artist for the home of a wealthy Pompeian gentleman some time between the earthquake of 63 A.D. and the searing eruption of Vesuvius 16 years later. The absorbent qualities of the porous volcanic gravel at that...
...Pompeii this week, Archeologist Maiuri unveiled his new Venus for 47 experts from 20 countries, who were there to dedicate an auditorium for the Pompeian Archeological Center. Until they had a chance to study her bright colors and billowing lines, he brushed off photographers eager to take careful pictures. "It's enough for now," he chuckled, "to say that she is the prototype of a Neapolitan beauty-florid, fleshy, luscious. In short, what you Anglo-Saxons would call a girl with sex appeal...