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Invisible Man. This new series started out a little better than most. David McCallum plays a conscientious scientist working on important research, but when it's a success and his thinktank decides to sell it to the Pentagon, he turns the research on himself and destroys the project. The project: invisibility. You might think its a big breakthrough for television to be dealing with such a controversial issue. But, when the students of the real issues are napalm-makers and poison gas developers aren't working on invisibility, they're working on laser-beam weapons and accurate nuclear weapons...
Although technically city politics are non-partisan, Cambridge is overwhelmingly Democratic and the spectrum usually runs from middle to left. In the middle are the so-called Independents who now control a five-man majority on the council with varying degrees of success. After 30 unsuccessful ballots for mayor in January 1974, when the present council took office, two Independents, Walter J. Sullivan and Leonard J. Russell, joined forces with the liberal faction of the council to elect themselves mayor and vice-mayor, in exchange for their votes to replace then-City Manager John Corcoran with James L. Sullivan. Since...
...catch anything you may have missed the last couple of months while you were browning yourself on the Cote d'Azur or wherever. Altman's latest is definitely worth your while. The finale is a bit contrived, but individual vignettes are alternately revealing, funny, and devastating. The critical success of Nashville has led to a series of revivals of older Altman movies. M*A*S*H is perhaps the funniest antiwar movie ever made, but you'll have to be on your toes if you want to catch all of the dialogue. Ditto with The Long Goodbye, where Altman sets...
Already there has been some success--but a steady trickle, not a deluge. In June 1974 State contracted with the center for a set of studies and Washington seminars to be prpared by five of the center's Scholars, Ulam and Keenan among them. This year, Toumanoff says, State has accepted a contract extension that will engage about five more scholars on issues like U.S.-Soviet trade, Soviet agriculture and long-range economic thinking, and guesses on Soviet succession (Kremlinology--who's sitting next to Brezhnev at what state dinners...
...center's members, Powell views detente as a "splendid idea," but so far a trading of something-for-very-little by Kissinger. Unlike more conservative center members like Doctorow, however, Powell can quickly respond to a question like "what's good about the Soviet Union": "a very extraordinary success in eradicating poverty and ignorance and disease--their infant mortality and life expectancy rank above...