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BRAHMS: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS, OP. 51, NOS. 1 AND 2, OP. 67 (RCA, 2 LPs). Another impressive disc debut, this one by the Cleveland Quartet...
...streakers are reported to police, who are not overly concerned anyway, but passers-by have been shaken by the spectacle several times in the past few weeks, and no one knows where they might strike next. Richard Kimball, a disc jockey for radio station KMET, is trying to correct that by broadcasting "streaker alerts" for Angelenos; when a racing nudist is spotted, listeners phone in their reports. Why do streakers streak? "By being unashamed of his body, a streaker can be unashamed of himself," says Shelley Duval, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California...
Fleming will not however, don a football helmet tonight when he and his teammates invade Harvard's Watson Rink at 7:30. Instead, he'll be wearing a pair of artificial metal extensions on his feet used for chasing a small rubber disc on a surface of frozen water, playing a game called ice hockey...
...fact, even the Charles of 200 years ago wouldn't have met Massachusetts standards of swimmability, if modern Massachusetts officials can be believed. They say that the Charles fails to meet one of the two standards of swimmability--transparency, indicated by the visibility of a white and black disc four feet underwater--because upstream swamps and marshes release organic acids that turn the water dark. "As far upstream as you go, it's brown," Noss insists. Chlorinating the river would help solve this problem, but it would do little to meet the more serious objections to the water's quality...
...damaged Telex to the tune of $117.5 million, a figure that he then tripled in accordance with antitrust law. But in this rush to judgment, he ruefully admitted last week, he had underestimated a crucial factor: much of Telex's potential business came from marketing disc drives and other "peripheral" computer components based on secret IBM designs. In his earlier finding that Telex had gained the designs by hiring away IBM employees, he had ordered Telex to pay $21.9 million in damages to its giant rival. Last week he further granted IBM's motion for a reduction...