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...movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...
Twenty-four other American institutions have just received MacArthur money. Among these are MIT, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley...
...some of the dancing is truly funny. The Busby Berkeley extravaganzas are a real joy, screaming with a "camera-as-new-toy" aestheticism. The footage from the "Stone Age," the early years of dance on film, features clumsy chorus lines whose tubby legs bespeak better cooking than choreography. Clowning aside, That's Dancing includes a superb dance by Eleanor Powell, the greatest female tapper ever who, because of her less-than-mediocre acting, never enjoyed the popular fame her footwork deserved. On the floor, she is simply astonishing. Another inclusion oft-neglected elsewhere is the Nicholas Brothers' rubber-legged vaudeville...
...Federal Government's agricultural Extension Service, set up in 1914, is one of the most successful programs Washington has ever developed. It helped spread new technologies and made American farms the most efficient in the world. John Zysman, 38, codirector of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy and a guest at the meeting of TIME'S Board of Economists, believes the U.S. can use a similar service for high technology...
Bolitho would replace Donald H. Shively, the professor of Japanese History and literature who resigned last year to go to Berkeley...