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...conflicts it symbolizes, implying instead a state of moral squalor necessary for such a catastrophe to have taken place. And his vision is only that of Bill Pilgrim, a stupid if sweethearted protagonist, bumbling between the Ilium upper-middle-class of Vonnegut's present, the Dresden holocaust, and the planet Tralfamadore, where he cavorts with a nubile Hollywood starlet in a fantasy-world designed to protect him from being fatally bound to his depressing earthliness...
...live on one spaceship planet, as environmental thinkers like to proclaim, then its temporary center this week is Stockholm. From the site of the United Nations' first global Conference on the Human Environment, TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer reports...
...honorary Doctor of Letters degrees were awarded this morning. Saul Bellow, the author of Mister Sammler's Planet. Herzog, Henderson the Rain King and The Adventures of Augie March, among others, is generally regarded as one of American's finest writers. Age 57, he was born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, and received a B.S. from Northeastern University...
...Charlton Heston. the famous astronaut whose visit was described in Episode 1 . . . Anybody who is confused-or thinks that he has wandered into a children's matinee-has not been following one of the most successful movie series since the progeny of Frankenstein. Twentieth Century-Fox's Planet of the Apes( 1968) and its sequels. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), have already taken in $135 million at box offices round the world and become the objects of a minor cult. Next month. Conquest of the Planet...
...come up with a third. Dehn's solution: Send some of the apes back to the present and show (in No. 3) how the whole story started, then (in No. 4) how the apes took over a major city, and (in No. 5, tentatively titled Battle for the Planet of the Apes) how the apes, like the humans who preceded them, began to ruin the world. "Up to now," says Dehn, an English poet and author, "the blame has been entirely on the humans. But I think now the apes are going to share...