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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With symphony orchestras in their vacation retreats, summertime is musically empty in many cities. Some organizations try to fill the void with light cocktail music in the form of Promenades and Pops concerts, but the Harvard Summer School Chamber Players have gone the more uncompromising route with the inventive programming and uniformly high quality performances of their Monday night series...
...Energetics Nine, Inc., recently started selling wind-driven units that deliver from 750 to 12,500 watts of electricity (an average refrigerator requires 250 watts). Some scientists estimate that with enough federal support for research and development (up to $18 million may be available this fiscal year), windmills could fill 20% of U.S. electrical needs-and perhaps even more-by the year...
...could pump ugly for a week"). Best of all, the gruff friendship between Burns and the young son of a teammate is successfully played for both laughs and pathos; as it does in all initiation tales, the moment comes when the boy must measure up-in this case fill the midget's shoes. When it is not taking outlandish swings at the fences, Pride of the Bimbos proves that it can bang out a succession of good clean singles...
Tomorrow. Tom Snyder is the host for a six-hour Fourth of July celebration. Even if you've had your fill of Snyder and of Bicentennial tripe, you might stay tuned for a bit of local color: in addition to interviews with Jimmy Breslin, Las Vegas tourists and Wernher von Braun, Snyder will talk with "young people at Harvard...
...declared martial law; then he proposed a drastic constitutional amendment called Yushin (Revitalization), which formalized his absolute power. Yushin freed the President from the "vagaries of politics" by eliminating popular presidential elections. Instead, a kind of electoral college was set up with 2,500 members; Park was empowered to fill one-third of the 219-seat National Assembly with those members of the electoral college whom he favored. An extraordinary 91% of South Koreans voted in favor of the new amendment, a suspiciously high majority in view of the fact that nearly half of the electorate had voted against Park...