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...1970s by compromising on a token voluntary school busing program. For four years Atlanta has had a black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Last week the city passed another milepost, for itself and the South, when Jesse Hill Jr., 51, a black insurance executive, became president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, in effect becoming the titular head of the city's mostly white business establishment...
...million last year, drew other hoteliers and so has driven the price of land from $200 an acre in 1971 to as much as $100,000 today. With almost 40,000 first-class rooms, Orlando's hotels are attracting some conventions, notably the 1978 congress of the International Chamber of Commerce. Walt Disney World is adding 144 rooms to one of its existing hotels and is contemplating construction of yet another hostelry. "We were cut off at the pass by Disney World," laments L. A. Baker, executive vice president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce...
...human being unless harpooned? It may be that echolocation, an adaptation to the eternal darkness of the ocean's depths, accounts for the unique personality of the whale. In echolocation, the whale projects high frequency sounds forwards. The sound waves bounce off objects, then return to the sound chamber in his forehead. He can tell the distance of the object by the strength of the returning sound wave. But these high frequency sound waves penetrate skin as well as water. Dr. John Sutphen, interested in diagnosing illnesses with sonar, conjectures that...
What the Franklin stove accomplished was a long, slow burn, achieved by limiting the amount of oxygen reaching the wood; it also trapped the heat inside the combustion chamber so that it radiated more evenly throughout the room. Modern stoves have become even more efficient through airtight construction, the use of baffles that pass the hot air back over the flame to improve combustion (and heat) and in some cases thermostats and blowers that circulate the warm air. Although some heat is thereby lost, in many stoves the doors can be temporarily folded back, leaving a clear view...
...Trombone Ensemble--855 Commonwealth Ave. 8:00. Margarita Scack--Jacob Sleeper Hall, 871 Commonwealth Ave. at 8:00. New England Conservatory Chamber Wind Ensemble--Williams Recital Hall...