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...distant stars. Most fact-fancying scientists are far more skeptical. Somewhere in the universe, they say, there may indeed be a scattering of planets with salubrious atmospheres and temperatures, and something like earthly life. But the planets are probably few, and the odds against finding or communicating with their far-out creatures, say the skeptics, are exceedingly high...
Dragon Sky. Lady Luck, like most females, needs to feel needed. When Marcel Camus, a middle-aged Frenchman whose first movie had flopped, laid his last sou and two years of his life on the line for a far-out film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the lady smiled on every scene he shot-Black Orpheus is a cinemusical masterpiece. But when he lazily decided to remake the same movie in the slums and ruins of Cambodia, the lady gave him a sharp slap in the face-Dragon Sky is just an interesting failure...
After that, whenever they had wanted to play far-out in Moscow, they had to do it secretly in someone's apartment. Said Midny: "Our individuality was crushed." Looking for a way out of the country, they joined the non-jazz orchestra of-the Bolshoi Variety troupe last month just before it left for a tour of Japan. Once in Tokyo, the two men slipped away to the U.S. embassy. The U.S. flew them to West Germany to avoid getting the Japanese in trouble with the Russians, and the two cats probably will reach the U.S. soon. After...
...acronym for Sperry Program for Advancing Careers through Education. Though taught on a graduate level, it does not offer college accreditation. "But where else," asks Director Tom Hirschberg, "can students find that today's breakthroughs in the research laboratory are tonight's lessons in the classroom?" "Far-Out U.," as students call it, enrolls half of Sperry's engineering and science staff in 34 advanced courses. For blue-collar workers eager to escape possible technological unemployment, the company designed 14 courses (Basic Electronics, for example) and several textbooks...
Having already surrendered their long black tights to suburban housewives, seen their burlap skirts turn up as dormitory curtains, their madras shirts as bedspreads, and their turtleneck sweaters on Sean O'Casey, far-out females from coast to coast stood dismally by while the squares got beat and left them, pad-ridden, behind. Commonzens told them to cling fast lest sandals, too, go the way of guitars, but too late. Before anyone could say "Cool it, dad," high fashion had taken over...