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...latest nonfiction book, The Promise of Space, Clarke foresees the ultimate magic of travel to the stars. "It is not difficult," he explains, "if one is in no particular hurry." For flights that will last from decades to hundreds of years, he has worked out a method that will avoid dooming travelers to spend most of their lives in space. Simply send egg and sperm cells on the trip, he says, and have computers mate them some 20 years before the voyage is to end. After that, he suggests, "carry the embryos through to birth by techniques already foreshadowed...
Bubble-gum music is the latest confection created for the subteen market, which accounts for about one out of every four single records sold. These customers, who range from high school freshmen all the way down to third-graders, are the displaced persons of the rock revolution. Today's groups sing about such everyday teen-age concerns as war, alienation, racism and narcotics. But to quite a few subteens, especially the more sheltered ones, having a social conscience means worrying about getting home by 10 p.m., grass is just grass, sex is necking, and the byword...
...puffed up largely by a 25-year-old former actor and rock-'n'-roll singer named Neil Bogart. Last year, as general manager of the newly formed Buddah record label, he set the formula with a recording called Simon Says. It sold 1,700,000 copies. The latest in a line of 28 similar disks is Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, by the Ohio Express, which last week was No. 15 on Billboard's bestseller chart...
...This latest arrival from the Czech cinematic surge is both sad and slapstick in an old-fashioned way. It is a Chaplinesque morality play about simple innocence in the rapacious world, aptly matched with direction and photography that point up the pastiche without collapsing into camp...
Zeroing In. The FTC is only the latest agency to zero in on the controversial conglomerates. President Johnson has appointed a group of academic antitrust experts to study and recommend policy toward the companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission is studying their financial reporting techniques. The Justice Department, criticized as being soft on antitrust, recently became acutely aware of the fact that antitrust law has lagged behind the phenomenon of conglomerates...