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Hollywood is already worrying about wall-sized home screens for big Ben and all the little Hurs. Broadway is rejoicing in the promise of touring without leaving town-and paying off the nut on opening night. "If free television reformed and cut its commercials, it could hurt us," said one cautious pay-TV executive. But that will be the day after never...
...Dalmatians. Dog beats man in Walt Disney's airy, unpretentious cartoon that is sure to please everybody but cats. Even the cats might like Disney's The Absent Minded Professor, a wacky science-fiction farce about Neddie the Nut and his fabulous flubber...
...professor (Fred MacMurray) is a small-college chemistry instructor, known to his students as Neddie the Nut, who "cracks the antigravity problem" by producing a substance he calls "flubber"* - lab gab for flying rubber. Flubber is a sort of daffy taffy that "generates its own energy" by a process of "molecular exchange." Sounds fishy? Works fine. When the professor drops a flubber ball on the floor, it bounces back to the height it was dropped from, goes even higher on the second bounce, hits the ceiling on the third, and on the 50th would probably sail to the moon...
Back on the ground, Neddie the Nut finds other uses for the go goo. Is the college basketball squad losing the big game? The prof smears a little witch pitch on the squad's sneakers, and the home team shows a sudden bounce-clear to the roof of the gymnasium. Does the villain (Keenan Wynn) try to steal the hero's secret? The prof discreetly adds a lift to that low heel, leaves him bouncing like a pogo stick till the nutty putty is recovered. Do the Army, Navy and Air Force consider his conquest of gravity...
...Only the moderate multiracial Liberal Party, which stands to win a good number of the swing seats, endorsed the scheme. Kaunda and his fellow nationalists might eventually cooperate, on the theory that the new constitution is at least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest. An extremist white mob met in a Lusaka movie house, angrily blamed its troubles on the United...