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MAN AND HIS UNIVERSE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). John Secondari's excellent program on the growing urban crisis and various plans to make life livable in the "Cosmopolis: Big City 2000 A.D." Repeat.
COSMOPOLIS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Architects and urban planners of today present ways of easing the choked conditions of tomorrow, including the possibility of constructing floating cities.
Cosmopolis is John Secondari's attempt to assay the urban crisis, and it is so successful that it manages to transform TV journalism into art. Editing shots of teeming Tokyo and sprawling Los Angeles so that they follow one another with a kind of rhythm, the producer-writer-narrator...
The comparison, of course, is only approximate. Space, as far as man can now foretell, offers no treasures comparable to those sought and found in the New World, no immediate chance for settlement on a new frontier. But the most important fact about America's discovery was not material...
Cosmopolis is only one of many logged-out forest towns throughout the U.S. where lumber companies are stirring into new life, inspired by the technological changes that have put the long-depressed forest industry up among the nation's fastest-growing industries, along with oil and chemicals. Woodsmen have...