Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overlook some revolutionary developments in flute technique: 1) the range is now six-plus octaves: 2) there are four ways to produce sound besides the normal way-"air rush," "buzz," "hhh-ttt" and "pop"; 3) the mobility of the performer reveals new potentialities for "stereophonic glissando," antiphony between direct and reflected sound, etc. Such potentialities signify the emergence of a new musical humanism...
...Space Co. grounds in Sunnyvale, Calif., an Indian sends up smoke signals above the caption "Spread the Word"; the word is that Lockheed has an immediate need for 2,000 workers. Douglas Aircraft Co. has been luring engineers with a $100,000 savings plan that is above and beyond normal retirement benefits. In Cincinnati, General Electric is offering present workers bonuses of up to $200 for every new employee they successfully recruit. Monsanto has started running help-wanted ads on TV in Dayton. Ford's Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant in St. Louis is using spot radio commercials...
Some companies are considering waiving mandatory retirement for workers with good records; others seek to attract moonlighters by offering wages 10% to 12% above normal for night shifts. The Atlanta post office has been hiring women to load trucks and trundle small mail carts around the downtown district; in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse has moved women into machine-shop and stockroom jobs normally held by men. Many companies profess that a return to the days of Rosie the Riveter is not far away...
...most dramatic proposal contained in the 200-page report calls for the creation of a powerful seven-man faculty Board of Educational Development which will seek out and stimulate academic experimentation and innovation. The Board would be empowered to give degrees for projects outside the normal bounds of concentration; and a new vice chancellor would be appointed to serve as a kind of "manager of academic heresy." The Board is expected to be so powerful that one dissenting member of the committee warned it might become a "university within a university...
...creation of more effective machinery to transmit criticism from students to administrators and Department chairmen. They even suggested the establishment of "ad hoc courses"--seminars on topics such as Vietnam, which would be determined at the beginning of each term--to build the teach-in into the normal curriculum...