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What Swimmer does capture is the casual communion between the musicians. There are three moments of particular intensity: Bob Dylan's natural virtuosity winning out over his nervousness, Ravi Shankar's astounding mini-concert of Indian music, and Billy Preston's spontaneous dance for joy in the middle of his song of praise...
...purchase of a $40,000 Lockheed Mac 16 mini-computer has enabled the Coolidge Bank and Trust Company to offer a 24-hour banking service...
...diverting at least some of the Highway Trust Fund to subsidize buses and other mass-transit systems that use highways, but not rail transit projects. Ford is promoting a high-speed-bus system, based on a network of guideways built over existing highways that use computer-controlled, Ford-built mini buses capable of carrying ten passengers. The company is building an experimental two-station system for Transpo 72 at Dulles Airport outside Washington...
...ranging expeditions have been scrubbed, principally to allow the financially pressed space agency to concentrate on the Administration's multibillion-dollar space-shuttle program; one Tour mission, in contrast, would have cost about $700 million. As an alternative, NASA is considering what it euphemistically calls a "mini-grand tour": a flyby of Jupiter and possibly Saturn using modifications of existing vehicles like Mariner 9, still in orbit around Mars. In fact, such a spacecraft is now being prepared for launch from Cape Kennedy for a two-year flight to Jupiter...
Today, a few weeks shy of 26, Liza has evolved in her own right into a new Miss Show Biz, a dazzlingly assured and completely rounded performer. The Justice Department should investigate her. She is a mini-conglomerate, an entertainment monopoly. In the new movie musical Cabaret, the full range of Liza's singing, dancing and acting talents dominates and steals a rambling and disorganized show (TIME, Feb. 21). As Sally Bowles, she is supposed to be a third-rate singer in a second-rate dive, belting out tunes to pay for schnapps and cigarettes. But as soon...