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Apollo 8's unblemished success and its safe return prompted Air Force Lieut. General Samuel Phillips, the Apollo program director, to announce that Apollo 9 had been scheduled for a Feb. 28 launch date. On that flight, a three-man team headed by Astronaut James Mc-Divitt will orbit the earth and practice rendezvous and docking with the problem-plagued Lunar Module (LM), which has not yet been tested in manned flight...
...When Samuel Goldwyn first pondered the possibilities of pay television, he saw it as the embodiment of progress -"and nobody yet," he exclaimed, "has shown the way to stop progress." Goldwyn was clearly uninformed about the procrastinating ways and restricted means of the Federal Communications Commission. In fact, the FCC dallied until this month, some 17 years later, before authorizing the U.S.'s first nationwide and permanent pay-TV service. And by now, with the networks having cornered most of the programming properties, the success of "fee-vee" is hardly assured...
...been published ten years ago, Alistair MacLean's thriller might have transferred effortlessly for a smaller budget to a smaller screen. The plot is not much different from, say, Samuel Fuller's low-budget submarine picture Hell And High Water, and even the magnificence of Cinerama can't conceal the thinness of the story. The Ice Station Zebra souvenir booklet plot synopsis, these usually confined to initial statement of the premise, manages to tell everything up to the last ten minutes without appearing expensive. The souvenir booklet also pretty much gives away who the villain is, which...
Wildly improbable as these goings-on may be, Novelist Stephen Jones has a gift for sweet and savage satire reminiscent of that unwholesome trio: Nikolai Gogol, Nathanael West and Samuel Beckett. His characters parody themselves in obsessive dead-end conversations, groping their way circularly past each other through muddled clouds of private thought and uncertain motive. In this first novel, his descriptions of hotels, restaurants, odd corners of small towns and the seedy people who inhabit them, haunt the mind's eye. Yet Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum...
...three-man write-in slate for the SFAC--Samuel Z. Goldhaper, James T. Healy, and Thomas Price--denounced both the HUC and the SFAC elections, charging inadequate publicity, improper handling of the ballots by candidates, and illegal voting before and after Wednesday, the official voting...