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...human life when earthlings themselves do not seem all that concerned. The notion becomes even more unbelievable when you consider that, from the aliens' point of view, we are inferior creatures. Just think what we do to our guinea pigs and chimpanzees. When the aliens courteously return--without a scratch on them--all the human specimens that they had kidnapped in order to examine, it makes you wonder what we did to deserve such good neighbors. Close Encounters is as optimistic as War Between The Worlds was pessimistic, although, admittedly, reality is difficult to express in a movie about things...
John T. Bethell '53, editor of Harvard Magazine, announces that he was the one who "lost the religion that Larry Flynt found." Bethell says his first mission will be to "sex up" his floundering publication, but denies that his first project will be a "scratch 'n sniff" centerfold of Nathan Glazer...
Comp IV starts things off by thinking of- but not revealing - a number, and its human opponent tries to work out the secret by punching pushbuttons. Milton Bradley Co., which makes the gadget, supplies scratch pads for adults and slow-witted children, but self-respecting eleven-year-olds disdain these. The girl also does not bother with the relatively easy three-and four-digit problems. She plays at the rarefied five-digit level, which means she must hit on one out of a possible 30,240 combinations, and she keeps her notes in her head, the way the computer does...
...simple machinery or by dwarfs, but Puck was animated in the same way that King Kong II was, through a combination of mechanical and hydraulic gadgets. There were even artificial tendons in his face, and by pushing levers 45 feet away, an operator could make Puck do everything but scratch his stomach and laugh like Santa Claus. "He doesn't have a wide range of expressions," says Rambaldi, "because probably very great advances in civilization would gradually bring people to lose much of their emotional nature." Just one question: Will they still eat popcorn...
...Jerry Hannifin: "If I were a guerrilla backed by Fidel Castro or somebody, I would just love those Panamanian jungles. They are better than even the jungles of Viet Nam. An organized guerrilla effort would cost us heavily. That is why we want the Panamanians on our side from scratch under the new treaties. We need them to help' us." If the U.S. were forced to take some kind of military action to protect the canal in, say, the year 2027, it would be in a far stronger moral position if it had approved the treaty. Then it would...