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Iolanthe is Gilbert at his most wonderfully preposterous, Sullivan at his best, and Harvard G&S only slightly unworthy of them both. But theirs is a clever and, in the end, triumphant unworthiness. They have transformed an admittedly far-out world into a farcical one, and they have done it awfully well...
Stranger yet to Palomares fishermen were the Jules Verne trawling capsules imported by the Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb...
Ellery Akers plays Gwendolyn--Lady Bracknell's daughter--as another incredibly far-out character. Admittedly the mother and daughter are not particularly close in the text, but in the production they too often completely ignore each other, not to mention everyone else...
...cloud discovered by Koehler in front of 3C 273 can more plausibly be interpreted as ejected from our galaxy, in the same manner as in other galaxies, than as part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The local model of quasars also has the advantage of accounting for the far-out locations of radio sources associated with other galaxies...
...Eisenhower, said that the time had come to "cool off the economy a bit"; he called for a cut in Government spending, followed, if necessary, by a tax increase. Arthur Burns, who also served Ike, proposed much the same remedies as Saulnier. Even Leon Keyserling, Harry Truman's far-out economist, wanted higher taxes-though not to reduce inflation but to guarantee that federal welfare spending would continue to rise despite the demands of Viet...