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...FARMER QUARTET: INTERACTION (Atlantic). Flügelhorn, anyone? Ex-trumpeter Farmer is using the soft, sweet monster in his new quartet, and to further melt the sound, he has replaced the piano with a guitar (played by Jim Hall). The melodic lines in Embraceable You are several yards long and barely kept aloft by a faint little beat. An album for those who take their jazz with plenty of cream and sugar...
...East German postal officials, are good through Jan. 5, but only from 7 a.m. to midnight, except on New Year's Day when the pass holders may stagger back as late as 5 a.m. Though some 800,000 West Berliners qualify for the passes, many of them are Flüchtlinge-refugees from East Germany who would be nabbed by the Vopos the moment they crossed the Wall and therefore will not dare...
...desperate effort to produce very large boosters such as those the Russians have, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration several years ago committed the civilian space program to rockets powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen, and its present hopes are pinned on a liquid-fuel engine called the Fl, which North American Aviation, Inc. has been developing for five years. It is a big, impressive machine, which will generate 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust; but though F-1 has completed many successful full-power tests, once in a while it "burns rough," shaking itself with destructive oscillations...
...this story-line gets lost in the telling, which is every bit as numbering as anything Fleming himself ever churned out. And that is what really troubles me about Alligator: the more one reads of it, the more one is haunted by the awful fear that I*n Fl*m*ng might easily be Ian Fleming himself and not a pair of funloving 'Poonies. Each successive Fleming plot is simply as exaggeration of its predecetaor anyway, and Alligator, with only a very few deletions (like the drinks or the account of B*nd's, phony vintage automobile), and something like...
Starts Friday the 17th: Peter ler's nihilistic and marvelously ny attack of British Big Busi and Big Labor, I'M ALL RIJACK. Accompanying it is a dish film about India, THE FL AND THE ARROW...