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...from a smugglers' paradise into Europe's largest duty-free shopping center were shuttered; the Tricolor was hoisted over the village-capital of Andorra la Vella. De Gaulle's aides reminded anyone who cared to listen that le grand Charles was, after all, the most important visitor to Andorra since his namesake Charlemagne passed through eleven centuries ago on his way back from battling the Moors...
...visitor to Venus were insulated and refrigerated against the 536° F. surface temperature, he might survive long enough to see both a sunset and a sunrise, which occur 59 earth days apart. When it was high in the sky, the sun would appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted...
View from a Bowl. The high refractivity of the Venusian atmosphere could have other bizarre effects. Looking toward the horizon with a powerful enough telescope, the visitor might be able to see the back of his own head. And wherever he was, he would appear to be standing in the center of a depression, or bowl, looking up toward the horizon. Concluded Eshleman: "We can now say that Venus is not only hell, but a hellhole...
Expo was the fair of films; a visitor could have spent the entire six months watching movies and still not have seen them all. Francis Thompson's We Are Young at the Canadian Pacific pavilion drew 2,500,000 viewers. Mixing live actors and film, the Czech pavilion's small, 150-seat theater managed to pack in 67,000 to see its Kino-automat, and almost 20,000 viewers fainted or grew queasy at Meditheater's visceral show. Live performers also did well. World Festival troupes played to an audience of 2,136,400. In all, fairgoers...
...other remarkable fact about London ticket collectors, and bus drivers, is that most are black. To a visitor, this is probably the clearest and most immediate pointer to a problem which is fast assuming major proportions...