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Died. Harry Partch, 73, far-out American composer and instrument maker; of a heart attack; in San Diego...
...SOUP, and Eli H. Lipton of the same city coyly selected T BAGS. Clergymen have embraced such identifications as 4 JESUS and TRY GOD. OOOOPS was the plate that one man rather cruelly chose for his accident-prone wife. But no Texas couple seems to have found quite the far-out felicity of a California husband and wife. His car's license plate: TARZAN. Hers: MEJANE...
...Far-Out Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...
...book's last stop is Thompson's visit to a far-out colony called Findhorn, near Inverness in Scotland. The Findhornians devoutly believe that "matter is a condensation of consciousness." Therefore "you can commune with plants and spirits of nature if you know how to pitch your consciousness at the same vibratory level." Thompson likes the idea, in part because it appears in so many pantheistic myths and in part because his search is for just such an evolutionary potential...
Familiar faces in new situations, familiar situations with new faces and a few far-out fancies worked around the standard detection plot. So it goes with this season's new recruits in TV's crime-fighting force...