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...Among the productions new to Broadway will be: Laurence Olivier's production of Christopher Fry's Venus Observed, with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison; Fancy Meeting You Again, a play about reincarnation by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath; Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk's Modern Primitive; Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold's Gertie, starring Glynis Johns...
...know. There is a trip schedule based on the latest calculations of voyage times to the various planets. One column lists the velocity the ship will need to escape from the gravitational pull of the planet on which it lands: 2.2 miles per second for Mercury, 6.3 for Venus, 3.1 for Mars, and 1.4 for Moon. Other handy facts: Jupiter's atmosphere is a combination of methane and ammonia; Mercury's day is 88 times as long as the earth's, while Mars's lasts only 25 terrestrial hours. With each passport went a ticket...
...Southwest was already abuzz with rumors. The fireballs were being pinned on White Sands (rocket) Proving Ground in southern New Mexico, as well as on the Nevada bomb testers. So far, no one had yet suggested another invasion of the famous flying saucers with their bright little crewmen from Venus or Mars. But people were beginning to report "things in the sky" as far away as New Jersey and New York...
...glories of Greco-Roman art is the Venus Callipyge (Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks). The Greeks would have laughed themselves sick over the "dwindled-down derriere"*-and no doubt found a word...
Space Doctors. Students of such unearthly fields as comparative planetary biology and bioclimatology, the scientists explain that, given the money and materials they need, they could toss a rocket full of passengers to Venus or to Mars. But the odds are that vegetation (if any) on those planets would provide no sustenance, and that the temperatures and pressures would be unbearable for earthlings. So the astrophysicists, and the ordnance experts, and the doctors of space medicine* deal with the somewhat more probable-the multi-stage rockets which they would like to use as artificial, man-carrying satellites...