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...JOHN HANDY ALBUM (Columbia). The hit of last summer's jazz festival at Monterey, Handy's quintet consists of his own sax, a violin, a guitar, bass and drums-all of which contribute to a complex, light-textured cacophony that is very close to contemporary classical chamber music, especially in long pieces like his Scheme #1. Handy can also produce tongue-in-cheek rock 'n' roll like Blues for a Highstrung Guitar with both wit and warmth...
...Gary, Ind., lost six pounds, and "the tension was so high that I suddenly felt like crying when I was driving home." Mrs. Robert Stack, wife of the television actor, says: "You are almost hypnotized -and your mind goes blank. It's like being in a torture chamber." The horrifying experience Father Hogan and Mrs. Stack endured was distinctly beneficial: the Berlitz Schools' "Total Immersion" course, which aims to give its students a foreign-language fluency and vocabulary of 1,600 words a week...
...inherent in a pure-oxygen system had discomforted space officials for years. In 1962, two crewmen in a space-cabin simulator at San Antonio were overcome by fumes from an instrument-panel fire but were rescued without serious injury. The same year, four men in an oxygen-filled test chamber in Philadelphia suffered second-degree burns when a short circuit in a lighting fixture caused a fire...
...hazards in spacecraft atmospheres noted that materials which were not highly combustible in a normal atmosphere erupted into flames during the Philadelphia blaze. Critics' suspicions seemed tragically justified last week when two airmen perished in a fire that flashed through the pure-oxygen atmosphere of a sealed test chamber at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at San Antonio. The difficult decision now facing NASA is whether or not to continue to provide American astronauts with a pure-oxygen atmosphere...
Conspicuous Failure. Powerful opposition to federal regulation has already begun to take shape. While conceding the need for better pollution control, spokesmen for the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute have all emphasized their preference for local standards and supervision...