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Baschet's goggling assemblage of aluminum saucers, glass rods, pneumatic cushions, nuts, bolts and screws is familiar to Paris, where it often furnished far-out background music for radio, TV and films, e.g., for the movie The Sky Above−The Mud Below. In the U.S., where the French government sent them last month for a series of appearances at the Seattle World's Fair, Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet has drawn enthusiastic crowds...
Wanted: More Boldness. Many foreign economic experts also believe that U.S. businessmen ought to be much more aggressive in budgeting for new plant and equipment and should start spending more on far-out research to develop new products. (Capital spending as a percentage of gross national product is currently 50% higher in Europe than in the U.S.). "For solid economic growth," says Dutch Economist Jan Pen, ''you need a shift from one sector to another-as in the past from textiles and railroads to electronics and chemicals. What America needs is a new growth sector." Sums up Yoshizane...
...from Oklahoma. As always, the Biennale was one party after another. The ineluctable Peggy Guggenheim gave a series of luncheons and dinners at her palazzo on the Grand Canal. Entertaining at a Tiepolo-lined rented palazzo was the flamboyant Greek-born beauty, Iris Clert, whose far-out gallery in Paris is credited with discovering Jean Tinguely, inventor of machine-operated sculptures that destroy themselves, and the late monochromist Yves Klein, who used his nude models as "living brushes." Her star discovery this year was Harold Stevenson, a young man from Idabel, Okla. He dresses from head to foot in white...
...effort to land men on the moon, some of his technical advisers were favoring a third: LOR (lunar orbital rendezvous). Though LOR at first glance seems like a bizarre product of far-out science fiction, many scientists are already convinced that it will prove easier, quicker and perhaps cheaper than any other system for making lunar landings...
...interesting jobs. Since its orbit will be slightly but measurably disturbed by the gravitational attraction of all the other passing planets, its waverings can be used to check the mass of individual planets. It may also detect large meteors that chance to streak close by. It may point to far-out, undiscovered planets, or even to dark, invisible stars. Its most radical use, Dr. Lowther figures, will be to check the inverse-square law, which says that the strength of light and gravitation diminishes inversely with the square of the distance from their source. This law is regarded...