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...electronic approach to teaching at M.I.T.? A far-out experiment at Goddard? Not at all. This is 15-year-old Oklahoma Christian College, a theologically conservative, Churches of Christ-run school, which, though academically obscure, has just opened the nation's first wholly electronic learning center. Each of Oklahoma Christian's 652 students has his own study carrel, tied to a computer that connects him in seconds to one of 46 tape playback machines. The system can transmit as many as 136 programs at once...
...JUNE PAIK, 33, a Korean, is a devotee of Composer John Cage, and his primary ambition was to compose far-out sounds. Electronic music inspired him to make electronic art, just as the Russian composer Scriabin made a motorized light display to accompany his Prometheus half a century ago. Now living in New York City, Paik buys up old television sets, scrambles the images they receive with electromagnetic coils and magnets. The results are a vertigo of discombobulated images, an early show of what kinetic art might become. "There are 4,000,000 dots per second on one TV screen...
...predict with certainty what will occur when 40 Eridani-A moves in front of X, but the distant event will give scientists a rare opportunity to test an equally far-out and still unproven deduction from Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. Instead of simply blocking the light from a distant star that it is eclipsing, Einstein predicted, the nearer star would create a lens-like effect that would actually intensify the image of the eclipsed star, increasing its brightness perhaps more than 1,000 times. The phenomenon would be caused by the closer star's strong gravitational...
...contrast to a Washington idea conference on Negro problems, which last week came out with such far-out solutions as a federal Department of Decolonization and enclaves reserved exclusively for Negroes in the South...
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. A betrayed wife (Giulietta Masina) lets her mind wander off to a far-out Freudian three-ring circus conjured up by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), whose effects are breathtaking to behold...