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...That Woman Down There!" From 5 p.m. until 2 a.m.. Disk Jockey Kallinger alternates hot gospel platters, patent medicine commercials and high-decibel "evangelists," who pay station XERF $87.50 per quarter-hour. The preachers do not come personally to XERF; they tape their spiels in the U.S. and send them...
...program is augmented by a fatuous short, Dances in Spain. High-decibel castanets, surrealist sets with real tinsel trees, effeminate gypsies chasing Tinkerbellesque points of light--these, one is led to conclude, are the cultural outpourings of Franco Spain. Uninspired photography alternates with extraneous quotations by Garcia Lorca. An unfortunate program--but don't miss the music between the showings. The 1812 Overture has gone forever; and the Brattle's all new Altec-Lansing Hi-Fidelity Sound System is devoted to reproducing the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli. They're restful and reassuring...
Since their fathers work on missiles at Cape Canaveral, many youngsters in Melbourne, Fla. (pop. 11,982) are used to hearing high-decibel gobbledygook. They are also used to an unusual academic pace. Next week they can even begin learning Chinese. Says Principal B. Frank Brown of lively Melbourne High School: "Scientifically, the Chinese are about where the Russians were in 1952. It's about time we tried to understand them. At the end of two years my students should be able to read a Chinese newspaper...
...unit for measuring relative loudness of sounds, the decibel is approximately the smallest degree of difference that, a human ear can detect between the loudness of two sounds...
...Until well after World War I, the Southern Baptist trademark seemed to be high-decibel evangelism and opposition to the Pope, Darwin, smoking, dancing and drinking. Between the enactment of Prohibition and the 1928 defeat of Al Smith, Southern Baptism went through some of its rowdiest moments. Some memorably colorful but questionable leaders appeared -and in a denomination without central authority, where each church has complete local autonomy, no one could say whether or not they spoke for Southern Baptism. There was, for instance, J. Frank Norris, a Fort Worth Baptist preacher ("the Texas tornado"), who killed a political...