Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while his friend went to find a hotel room. He finally found a room in a small West London hotel, but when the American entered the hotel, he was told he could not stay because he was colored. The English friend complained, and then lodged a complaint with the Greater London Conciliation Committee. They in turn called up the proprietress, who apologized for what it turned out was her son's decision. Mother and son both agreed to apologize to the American, and signed an assurance against discriminating in the future...
...long while before listeners accept electronic music with any comfort, at least as part of the standard concert-hall experience. The chief complaint is that there is nothing musical about the production of those unique and sometimes eerie timbres and rhythms that the avant-garde composers draw from oscillators and magnetic tape. Now, however, there is enough evidence to suggest that the electronic composers have at last found the ideal setting for their work. They have formed a partnership with the abstract visual arts, to the point where their sounds at last make musical sense...
...62nd general convention in Seattle overwhelmingly approved a canonical change making it extremely difficult to initiate action against any prelate accused of unorthodoxy. Under past laws, a request for a heresy trial required the signatures of three bishops, approval by a ten-member board of inquiry. Now a complaint must be signed by no fewer than ten bishops, and requires a two-thirds majority of the House of Bishops before a trial can be held. Pike described the change as a "vindication," dropped his request for a trial to clear his name...
Since the Air Force's SR-71 began flying over Chicago three months ago, the Chanute Air Force Base in downstate Illinois has received 1,630 letters of complaint, 1,497 of them claiming damage (usually cracked plaster and glass) caused by sonic booms. In Boston, the Air Force and Air Guard are formally investigating a recent boom that, according to newspaper accounts, knocked scores of pedestrians off their feet, leaving "a trail of terror...
...major complaint in the state, and especially in the city, is that only a minority of doctors, dentists and druggists are participating in the plan and accepting Medicaid patients. Some doctors say that they cannot be bothered with the paper work and would rather treat patients free. Some are suspected of holding out (though there can be no proof) because Medicaid pays by check, whereas now they can pocket unreported cash fees. Some doctors who do participate are enjoying hugely increased incomes because now they are sought out by patients formerly kept away by pride and poverty. The biggest boom...