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Carnegie's new organ will do that in a way not obvious to the average listener. Different orchestras often have different pitches. The standard middle A, to which most orchestras tune, is 440 cycles per second. But the Vienna Philharmonic, for example, tunes to 445 for a brighter sound, while the New York Philharmonic prefers 441. Since the pitch of an ordinary organ-pipe or electronic-is immensely difficult to change, touring orchestras never bring along "organ works. But Carnegie's new Rodgers can be tuned from 435 to 445, or anywhere in between, with the turn...
...Brighter Picture. As a result of those efforts, Bostonians received a slightly different and more encouraging picture of the week's events than readers of out-of-town papers or viewers of network news reports. While a Globe headline last Tuesday reported sanguinely that EXTRA POLICE HOLD DOWN S. BOSTON TROUBLE, the New York Times led its account in a more negative manner: "Chanting bands of white youths roamed the streets of South Boston today, protesting court-ordered integration." Network correspondents, who were not a party to the speak-softly agreement, found that there was occasional disagreement between them...
...most students and administrators don't believe the crime wave can be slowed only through the physical improvements Hall devises. Although the administration last year distributed free whistles to students, established an escort service through the student security patrol, leased buses for safe transportation, installed brighter street lights, purchased seven new cruisers, and tried to make students "security consious" the crime statistics continued to skyrocket...
...high school, Mud's boy was younger and brighter than just about anyone else. "His smile was terrific," recalls Anderson. "He made plenty of friends who spanned several classes. Jack wasn't one of the heroes, but he made them his friends." He managed the varsity basketball team his freshman year. On one occasion he thought that the opposing team was playing dirty. After the game, Nicholson went back into the gym and trashed the electrical equipment on the rival's Scoreboard. He confessed his crime, got suspended from school, and took a part-time...
There are also some brighter signs in education. Though reading scores in ghetto elementary schools remain 15 to 19 points below the national norm, test scores in New York City show that the decline has been at least temporarily arrested in the past year. Since 1967 the percentage of black ghetto males who drop out of high school has fallen from 24% to 18%. To its credit, the Nixon Administration since 1969 has more than doubled federal aid to black colleges, to $242 million this year...