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From the moment the Earth's inverted flying lamp-shade lands on this planet, Altair 4, and its crew have settled themselves ("Wotta place! Just another one of those new planets--no beer, no women, no pool parlor"), Dr. Morbius, a twenty-year resident, begins his fatal battle of the Super Ego versus Id. Although he professes to be a gallant humanitarian at the outset, by the end of the picture we are convinced that he is a person just like ourselves: an intelligent egomaniac who wants only one thing in life--to have his own little planet...
...planetary system of Alpha Aquilae. As it approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent from Earth 20 years before, greets...
John Twachtman (1853-1902) began his career in a Cincinnati window shade factory, painting decorations. Making his way to Europe for study, he gradually worked deeper into the spirit of impressionism than any other American. Twachtman saw that air itself has color. Nature was to him a prim Salome who kept on all her seven veils. Deftly, delicately, with more tact than passion, he painted her veiled in atmosphere. His Fishing Boats at Gloucester demonstrates Twachtman's genius for evanescent things...
...shade of a chilly, barren mountain called India Muerto (Dead Indian), 9,000 feet up in the northern Chilean Andes, lies the world's newest major find of copper ore. The discovery, says Roy H. Glover, board chairman of Anaconda Co., "is the greatest and most important development in copper mining in Chile since the initiation in 1914 of Chuquicamata" -and famed Chuquicamata is the world's biggest copper ore body. Last week Chile's President Carlos Ibañez gave Anaconda* an official go-ahead to spend $53 million toward making Indio Muerto an active producer...
...back modern art. Dove, painting on a Connecticut farm, soon earned a first of his own; he was the first to dispense altogether with representation. Yet Abstraction No. 2, done in 1910, is imbued with the qualities of nature. Few representational landscapes carry more sense of sun and shade, stone and tree...