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...finest musical instrument in America." 1962: Hall opens. Critics say it is acoustical dud-mushy, strident, dry, opaque, flat, cold. Hall's 136 sound-reflecting "clouds," suspended from ceiling, are tilted, lowered, raised. No help. Diffusion of sound so unbalanced that best vantage point is, ironically, cheapest seat in top balcony. New York Philharmonic musicians complain they cannot hear each other onstage, say hall is glorified $17.7 million pinball machine. Mood of pessimism pervades. Rumors circulate that visiting orchestras are going to boycott splendorous blue-and-gold hall in favor of mellow surroundings of Carnegie Hall. Soloists panic, talk...
...Oldest & Cheapest. During World War II, Allied bombing clogged the waterways with 4,000 sunken vessels, 370,000 tons of twisted bridge steel, 14 million cubic feet of concrete and rubble. Since the war, Germany has spent more than $1 billion to clear away the debris, rebuild the fleet, deepen the rivers and improve the country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs...
...every cubic foot of hotel space, figures that profits run to 70% on the price of rooms, 50% on liquor service, nothing at all on food-and that lobbies are just so much dead space. Tabler hotels have small lobbies, plenty of bedrooms. Says he: "Bedrooms are the cheapest thing in a hotel to build, and they produce all the profit. We cut down on the things that lose money...
...wage rates, and is easily transported to seaports. Then, too, huge new deposits of high-grade ore that could be transported cheaply have been discovered in under developed countries. Result: waterside plants that are free of protectionist restrictions can buy raw materials wher ever in the world they are cheapest, thus destroying the traditional competitive advantage of a domestic supply...
...would-be purchasers grumble about the high cost of color, price seems to be secondary to style and quality in the eyes of most buyers. Discount houses commonly offer small, 19-in. color sets for less than $300, and RCA last week temporarily cut the list price of its cheapest set from $400 to $380 in a one-shot promotion. These stripped-down, metal-encased models do not move as fast as the higher-priced ones; the hottest sellers are the walnut or mahogany models that have such popular accessories as remote controls and automatic demagnetizers and sell...