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CT-45-70,249, 9/3/45 Photo by S/Sgt Kienzle, Chinese crowding the war capital of Chungking sheer wildly as a contingent of U.S. soldiers and WAOS keep through the streets as part of an interminable V-J day parade.

CT-45-70,249, 9/3/45 Photo by S/Sgt Kienzle, Chinese crowding the war capital of Chungking sheer wildly as a contingent of U.S. soldiers and WAOS keep through the streets as part of an interminable V-J day parade.

Second avenue at Second street, New York.
Portraits of Molly Picon, Joseph Rumshinsky, and Jacob Kalich on cover.

An illustration of the planets' epicycles.

Illustration of nested regular solids, depicting Kepler's model of the solar system. Saturn's orbit circumscribes the cube, Jupiter's orbit the tetrahedron, Mars' orbit the dodecahedron, Earth's orbit the icosahedron, and Venus' orbit the octahedron.…

Kepler describes the alignment of the platonic solids in the solar system. The four illustrations depict flattened views from within the octahedron looking out. The horizontal line is the square bisecting the octahedron, and the other lines show the…