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BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. And all hail Adolfas Mekas, a young and impecunious U.S. director who in his first feature film has produced a far-out and very funny farce, the first cubistic comedy of the new world cinema...
...electronic gadgets so vital to vehicles in far-out space suffer from some far-out troubles. Cosmic radiation sickens their semiconductors. Vibrations and swift temperature changes cause fractures in all-important wires. Lubricants evaporate into the vacuum of space. But scientists are already working on some far-out cures. The latest: a tin-magnesium-aluminum alloy that can be made into wires that grow gap-bridging "whiskers" when broken and soon heal their own wounds...
...oddest graduate school in the U.S. is a far-out arm of the University of Chicago called the Committee on Social Thought. Physically, it is a dingy office under the eaves of the social science building. Its faculty, which includes Novelist Saul Bellow and Political Scientist Hannah Arendt, numbers only eleven. But its goal is as big as the world. While other graduate schools atomize knowledge, this one aims toward "a unification of knowledge and a revealing of the human being as a whole...
Open to All Mankind. With no space cases to set precedents, legal theorists are scratching hard for down-to-earth parallels to these no longer far-out problems. The most compelling comparison is to the law of the high seas-as a pair of massive new books on space law make clear. In both Space Law and Government, by Andrew G. Haley (Appleton-Century-Crofts, $15), and Law and Public Order in Space, by Myres S. McDougal, Harold Lasswell and Ivan A. Vlasic (Yale, $15), maritime law, which has grown out of the common consent and reciprocal needs of seafaring...