Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Symphony Sid, was a disc jockey for a small dawn-to-dusk radio station in Roxbury or some such place. Its signal was so weal that even in ?Cambridge it cam in as quavering and erratic as a BBC message from Winston Churchill to the French Resistance. But I strained for the sound because for fifteen minutes every day just before signoff time, Symphony Sid broadcast a kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan...
...there were also quite a few three-piece suits sprinkled among the 400 or to participants in the Boston Rock Music Seminar. They came to discuss their business, rock, and speak with representatives from independent and major record labels, producers of bands such as November Group and The Cars, disc Jockeys and a hearty helping of press and management people...
Stephen Baron, 27, suffers from a ruptured disc that can cause him excruciating back pain. But Baron, an international management consultant in Washington, D.C., has found a topsy-turvy way to get relief. Four times a week he dons a pair of steel and foam-rubber Gravity Boots that each weigh three pounds and dangles from his heels from a chinning bar for five minutes. Says he: "It's a very restful, relaxing experience that eases the pressure off my lower back for hours. I can even hear my vertebrae clicking while I'm upside down...
Public reaction was swift and devastating--the largest out cry Watt has stirred up in his far-from-placid two years in office, a department of official reported. Disc jockeys across the country inveighed against Watt-one called him "the administration's chief nerd." The Beach Boys, the most prominent group to play at the Fourth of July concert in past years, issued a statement that declared. "After Watt's remarks, we believe the Department of the Interior has attracted the wrong element...
...race horses to inventories of electric trains, from collections of dirty jokes to lists of talking books. There are now some 130 software aids for data basing on microcomputers, among them, D.B. Master, dBase II and VisiFile. But the fastest-selling data-base program in the U.S. is the disc that Harvey used: Personal Filing System, or PFS (Software Publishing Corp...