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...moon an ideal base for observatories and some industries. Meteors which have battered the lunar surface for eons have probably also endowed the moon with immense mineral wealth. Although lunar days and nights are each two weeks long and accompanied by deadly extremes of temperature (ranging from 240 degrees Fahrenheit above zero to 250 below), both the unshielded rays of the sun and the numbing cold of the night can be turned to the advantage of human settlers...
Each film by François Truffaut is a paradigm of innocence. The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim were about the destruction of innocence. Shoot the Piano Player and The Soft Skin described its dangers, and Fahrenheit 451 was its vindication. Even last year's The Bride Wore Black (TIME, July 5), a hard-edged homage to Hitchcock, contained much of the director's characteristic compassion for its driven, doomed characters. Stolen Kisses is Truffaut's newest and gentlest film, a lovely memory of adolescence that begins with the delight of youth and ends with...
...TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Oskar Werner and Julie Christie star in Fahrenheit 451 (1967), about a futuristic society where owning and reading books is a crime...
...Partly to encourage backers who were dismayed at the commercial anemia of his critical successes, Truffaut in The Soft Skin abandoned the visual conceits of, narrow and widening screen and rocketing flashbacks that characterized his previous works. Skin was a mild film of convention that won few admirers. Fahrenheit 451, starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, was his only true failure, an atypically emotionless sci-fi attempt to show the future as nightmare. The fact, of course, that it was done in English by a director who could not speak the language made the project disaster-prone from the beginning...
Academic man is slowly suffocating under the sheer volume of technical books and specialized papers. Although Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford would not go so far as Fahrenheit 451, in which a future civilization bans and burns the printed word entirely, he does advocate a new form of birth control-for books...