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...north grows in population and economic importance, some permafrost problems will become more severe. Sanitary Engineer Amos Alter, 47, chief engineer of the Alaska Department of Health, detailed some of the elaborate methods now being tried for heating and pumping sewage in his burgeoning cities. And in a far-out speculation of his own, he suggested that in the future arctic liquids and wastes could be purified and recycled in "some sort of closed-circuit arrangement" that would treat whole cities in the manner now planned for two-man space capsules...
Instead of picking one official architect-such as James Gamble Rogers, who weighted the campus down with his Girder Gothic of the late 1920s and '30s, Yale turned to a number of the most lustrous and far-out contemporary master builders: Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. They adhered to no single style, only to the modern mood, which freely explores how steel, glass and reinforced concrete can most beautifully be bent to shelter man. Their stunning results have made Yale more of a laboratory than a museum...
Drawing support from such far-out groups as the Birchers, Scott advised voters to "shoot the works" by sending him to Congress and his political idol, Barry Goldwater, to the White House. He dismissed Democrat Hove as a "fuzzy, liberal, socialist egghead," concentrated his fire on Fellow Republican Andrews. "The middle of the road has shifted to the left of center," cried Scott of Andrews' moderate views. "The center line on the highway is dangerous ground...
...developed eventually settled into an astonishing reach of three octaves -minus one note-more than enough | to sing both Tristan and Isolde. But every sound she is capable of making is required by the freak music she now sings. At 35, Cathy Berberian is the first lady of far-out song...
...Hallelujah the Hills, the work of America's Adolfas Mekas, is a gloriously funny and far-out farce about two great big overgrown boy scouts who pratfall in love with the same girl...