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Maxfield has extensive musical and electronic background. Unlike the European experimenters in the field, he does not use electronic music as a medium for serial composition but as a more far-reaching attempt to broaden the listening powers of the concert audience. As such I think the best of his works succeed. His compositions remind us that music is, after all, merely sound organized by men in some purposeful fashion, and that its limits are set by its purpose. His belief that music is experience, not communication, helps to destroy the straight-jacket that social forms and traditional compositions have...
...matter how often the House Democrats counted the noses, no matter how hard they pleaded, cajoled and threatened, they could not come up with the magic number needed to pass President Kennedy's must bill to boost the $1 minimum wage to $1.25 and broaden coverage. History was against them. The House had killed the same bill last summer, and since then the Republicans had gained 21 seats...
MINIMUM WAGE BILL to broaden coverage and raise the floor from $1 to $1.25 by 1964 got past first hurdle, the House labor committee. Bill would add 4,300,000 workers, including big chain stores, to the 21 million covered. Defeated: a clause to take in 500,000 hotel, motel and restaurant employees...
...defense policy, the Administration has decided on a buildup of non-nuclear forces to lessen the U.S.'s dependence on nuclear weapons and broaden its range of possible military action in future crises (see Defense), but the buildup is going to proceed pretty slowly. Confronted by an already massive budget. President Kennedy has decided to hold the increase in defense spending to less than $2 billion...
...conversion was started by the late President John S. Coleman with the help of his executive vice president, Eppert, who went to work at Burroughs 40 years ago as a shipping clerk. To broaden their product base, they bought two oldtime producers of bank forms and checks. The jump into computers came in 1956, when they took over ElectroData Corp., a leading manufacturer of high-speed electronic digital computers. A short time later, they moved into the fast-growing bank automation field (TIME, Dec. 5) with magnetic inks and automatic check-sorting equipment. While they aimed most of their...