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...requests, by the way, are filled in random order; the senior class is seated first, and so on. It makes no difference when the envelope is turned in, as long as it is submitted before the deadline...
...with Artist Artzybasheff's striking cover painting of a lunar robot (see above). Reaction to the space story came jet-fast to Leonard: five publishers asked if he would expand the story into book length. This week the book was published: Flight into Space (307 pp.), Random House ($3.50). It is Leonard's ninth book, five of the others being also on scientific subjects. "Most of the research for this book," says he, "had already been gathered as a byproduct during the past eight years since I've been writing science for TIME." Any writer on space...
...reassuring thing about most grand opera is that nobody is ever left long in doubt as to who the villain is-or what he is after. A modern school of opera composition prefers another proposition: nobody is sure of anything. The plots of this school usually have the random malevolence of nightmares; the singing line often gets lost among the soliloquies. Such an opera made its U.S. debut last week in Manhattan's City Center: The Trial, by Viennese Composer Gottfried von Einem, based on Franz Kafka's famed nightmare of the same name...
...H.A.A. will meet today to study a plan to end football ticket lines. Assistant Atheltic Director Donald M. Felt '49 said last night, "We hope to have some sort of action by tomorrow" on the Undergraduate Athletic Council's proposed revision. The Council plan recommended distribution of tickets in random order within each class...
...ticket staff would fill the envelope requests one class at a time. Requisitions would be handled at random. It would make no difference in seat allocations when the requests were handed...