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DOUGLAS PETER MC!NTYRE Wareham, Mass...
...goes to the Brattle on Sunday afternoons beside CRIMSON reviewers? When a Marx Brothers movie is announced, small children go to the Brattle on a Sunday afternoon, giggling and wriggling and dragging reluctant daddies behind them. Yesterday afternoon they ate up Gerald Mc-Boing-Boing, as well they might, and also, with less reason, the Magoo which followed it. Shortly after the feature film had started, however, they began first trickling and then trooping out, and before it was far advanced, most of them were back on the streets...
...Since the object of those who operate the source is to find a newly evolved society, we may presume that the channel used will be one that places a minimum burden of frequency and angular discrimination on the detector . . . The wide radio band from, say 1 mc to 10,000 mc, remains as the rational choice. For indisputable identification as artificial, one signal might contain, for example, a sequence of small prime numbers of pulses, or simple arithmetical sums...
Britain's radio telescope at Jodrell Bank followed Lunik III while it was flirting with the moon, but one of Lunik's tracking transmitters (39 mc) had apparently gone dead, and the other one (183 mc) was working erratically. The signal stopped entirely for about four minutes. This break might have indicated the moment when Lunik III briefly dipped behind the edge of the moon, but the Jodrell Bank scientists could not be sure whether it passed ahead, behind or under the moon. Since the far side of the moon was mostly in sunlight, Lunik may have photographed...
...daydream of every honest bookkeeper: snatch the company payroll, high-tail to Paris and set up light housekeeping with a reasonable facsimile of Brigitte Bardot. In A Taste for Champagne, Hans Con-ried, Monique Van Vooren and Scott Mc Kay make the caper come off with style...