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...thought of leaving Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall when the Paul Taylor Dance Company made its debut there last week before a near capacity house. Taylor and his troupe set out to be cozily charming rather than abstractly far-out. The result was atypical Taylor, an airy dance frolic as pleasantly unpretentious as a gambol on the green...
...state of business and the uncertainty of politics in Canada have perplexed investors for some time. One year ago, a balance-of-payments crisis forced the Diefenbaker government to clamp on a dollar-devaluing austerity program, and less than one month ago, some far-out budget proposals (TIME, June 21) shook the new Pearson government. But as a whole the Canadian economy looks healthier than in half a dozen years...
...casual reader, the story may sound like a far-out effort at science fiction. But the moon tale told by Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven amounts to much more than an imaginative voyage into the distant past; it is an ingenious effort to reconstruct a cosmic catastrophe that changed the composition of man's earth and set a new course for the moon more than 2 billion years...
...Eagle years, he looked for the right big picture, found it in 1951 on a shelf in the Warner Bros, story department. Spiegel dusted off The African Queen, surprised filmland by casting it not with regular types like Robert Taylor and Betty Grable, but with a combination considered far-out indeed-Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Queen became the first Spiegel film to get an Oscar (Bogart's), and others trod hard on its golden heels: Waterfront won eight, River Kwai brought the total to 16. Lawrence made...
...into range-including research spacecraft. NORAD has counted 273 man-made objects orbiting earth. Some are satellites, living or dead, but most are "garbage": the burned-out rockets, connecting rings, nose covers, and other bits and pieces that are abandoned after accompanying spacecraft into orbit. The oldest of these far-out travelers is Explorer I, launched Jan. 31, 1958. Its orbit is beginning to decay. But Vanguard I, launched a month and a half later, is in higher orbit, and may stay aloft for another 1,000 years...