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Times have changed since concerts ran four or five hours in length. Today, an hour and a half of live creativity is all the average listener is expected to digest as one time. Two hours is considered long. Two and a half is considered an interesting experiment in the ability of performers and listeners to keep up the kind of concentration needed to hear good music. The effort was great but the results were worth it to those who heard the concert given by the Harvard Summer School Chorus under conductor Harold Schmidt. On the program were the Schubert...
...upsurge seemed to bear out predictions that 1966 will be the magazines' best year ever, and the pattern generally applied across the board. A surprise exception: the Reader's Digest's 11% drop in ad revenues. Such varied magazines as Cosmopolitan, Teen and Motor Trend all announced revenue increases of more than 50%. Hugh (Playboy) Hefner's HMH Publishing did well enough to declare its first cash dividend, 75? per share, though it was a bit like transferring cash from one pocket to the other. Hefner himself owns 80% of the stock, giving him a personal...
...edifices, and such projects as Houston's Astrodome suggest that he will go much farther. His new vehicles, amid the general advance in knowledge of meteorology, are the creations of modern technology, particularly electronic-eyed weather satellites like Tiros and Nimbus and high-speed computers that can digest and interpret weather data...
...YORK TIMES, however, has learned from an unimpechable source the following digest of the three plans which were drafted by the Governments recently and exchanged by the Governments concerned for study and comment...
...should have no suspicions of Haley. He was neither a black nationalist (he had written for such "white" periodicals as The Reader's Digest and Playboy) nor what Malcolm called a "house Negro" who identified entirely with his white master. The two men developed a warm personal friendship, and the book benefits from the gifts each man brought...