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Acoustic Research Contemporary Music Project (Deutsche Grammophon, 6 LPs; $2 each). The makers of AR loudspeakers and other audio equipment are offering records devoted to 16 American composers largely ignored so far by the record-industry majors. Especially worthwhile are Milton Babbitt's Philomel, for soprano (Bethany Beardslee) and synthesized sound, and an airily atonalistic set of madrigals by Pulitzer Prizewinner George Crumb. The records are available by mail from AR, Inc., 24 Thorndike St., Cambridge, Mass.02141...
...Scalp, and soon spread to the U.S. where the charter club was organized at Milton, Mass., in 1897. In the intervening years, it had brief periods of popularity and was kept alive during its several down cycles largely through the efforts of the Aiken Preparatory School of Aiken, S.C., which uses it to help teach regulation polo. Explains Carlos Concheso, a New York banker and one of the founders of the U.S.B.P.A.: "It's a good way to develop a feel for the fundamentals, especially for the teamwork that is so necessary...
...also an early scholar; he graduated from Princeton with honors in economics, was a World War II Marine major. Both men rose in the academic world and were tapped for frequent assignments in Government. Economist Burns, 67, and Industrial Relations Expert Shultz, 50, are both close friends of Milton Friedman, the Little Giant of monetary theory. Burns was Friedman's professor at Rutgers. Shultz was his colleague at the University of Chicago, when Shultz headed the graduate school of business administration. When Burns was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in the 1950s, Shultz worked...
Amin, who seized power from Apolo Milton Obote in a coup last January, personally toured the region to talk up trousers. Some tribesmen heeded his pleas, but a cholera epidemic broke out a few days later, confirming an old tribal suspicion that clothes only hide disease. So far, the only Karamojongs Big Daddy has succeeded in dressing up are the 120 tribesmen who were tried and convicted of rioting at Moroto. They have been sentenced to six months in jail -in prison garb...
After being defeated in an earlier try for the governorship of Pennsylvania, Democrat Milton Shapp found a winning issue last fall. He charged the Republicans with being big spenders who had brought the state to the verge of bankruptcy. Elected in a landslide that gave the Democrats control of both houses of the legislature for the first time in 32 years, Shapp set out to put the state in financial order-only to find himself in a worse fix than the Republicans. By last week, Pennsylvania had edged even closer to bankruptcy. Shapp's administration was spending...