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...justify their cost and weight. Still other tests are merely experiments in nuclear physics. The device tested may be useless as a weapon, but scientists hope that its explosion will yield information about the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles which they cannot obtain in any other way. These far-out tests may be the most important of all because they lead to long-range progress...
...result, today's housing market now centers on the "secondary buyer," such as the homeowning World War II veteran, who wants to upgrade to a bigger and better house. "Quality" houses are selling well, but crackerboxes in far-out neighborhoods are slow indeed to move. Says President Jack Hoffman of Chicago's F & S Construction Co.: "The shelter mar ket has disappeared. The days when you could simply sell a roof to put over someone's head are finished...
...Class of '41 was on a space kick. Members displayed some really far-out signs; some of the best (or worst) were "Let's play space tennis--you bring the rockets," "Pleased to meteor," "Is your wife backwards? Give her a retro-rocket for Xmas," "There is no lead in our astronaut," and "Insist on a genuine Van Allen belt...
...West. But culturally, Yugoslavia has made her choice clear: freedom. The bold, abstract expressionism of Yugoslav painters has put them in the van of the avantgarde. Last week, during a week-long festival of international contemporary music in Zagreb, Yugoslav composers proved that they were as ready to accept far-out modernism as were their comrades at the easel. Sell-out audiences loudly approved...
...American Dream, Edward Albee's quietly angry, queerly comic comment on modern man; The Connection, a notoriously graphic portrait of some beatniks with golden arms; The Zoo Story, another Albee study, teamed with Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, far-out but fascinating early play by Bertolt Brecht; and the already classic Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein musical, The Threepenny Opera...