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...first Sayles movie he has not edited on the kitchen table of his home in Hoboken, N.J. But Baby, It's You is not the traditional calling-card film of an ambitious young talent, shaping its dexterity to the restrictive demands of the horror or sci-fi genre. This movie, set in Trenton, N.J., in 1967 and loosely based on the teen-age experiences of Producer Amy Robinson, has the same Sayles eye for offbeat casting and off-the-shoulder comedy, the same ability to infiltrate the minds of charac ters from widely different social strata. Nothing has changed...
...science-fiction field, formerly a gentlemen's club run by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, 53, won both Hugo and Nebula prizes, sci-fi's Pulitzers. Le Guin also won the National Book Award for her children's novel The Farthest Shore in 1972. Her 22 books, most of which are science fiction, have en livened the hardware-oriented genre with emotional immediacy, much as Ray Bradbury's haunting tales once...
...Beast" fame won it is '53, A couple of things have Doris on the rocks, 1, The Times ran a story in its magazine on here during the summer. That's more a kiss of death than appearing on the cover of SI. 2, Leasing's latest books are sci-fi, and it the committee wants that, well they just ought to was till my man Isaac reaches Nobel age in 15 years. By that time he will have written more books than Erle Stanley Garner and Franklin W. Dison by a bushel 12-1 on the lady with...
...WinnersClass Size 1. Soc Anal 10 1008 2. Gen Ed 105 522 3. MR 11 416 4. Chem 20a 399 5. Ap Sci 11 368 6. Math 1a 360 7. Hist Stud A-25 345 8. Ap Sci 10 332 9. Econ 1500 326 10. Science B-27 318 Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," once again led all courses in enrollment this fall, packing more than 1000 undergraduates into Sanders Theatre. General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," jumped into second place this year. (See story...
What once seemed a sci-fi folly is now, by Hannah's reckoning, a plausible venture. He and his 56 fellow investors in SSI, nearly all oil-industry friends, have already run through $6 million, and must raise at least another $15 million before their venture can earn a cent. The business plan: putting telecommunications and earth-scanning satellites into orbit, at about $5 million a shot, for companies that want a rocket all to themselves or do not want to wait for cheaper space on NASA'S booked-up space shuttle. Hannah says a dozen energy companies...