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...Pallid Pap. Lately, Muzak's message has begun to drift around the world, always with the same serene results it has accomplished in America. Women workers in an Argentine flour mill who used to fight and scream at each other on sight, now go to work peaceably to music's soft accompaniment. Passengers on the Trans-Siberian Railroad suffer the trip to the tune of Cossack songs and band music, and a brothel in Stuttgart has applied for the "Light Industrial" program local Muzak men offer...
...music has a way of inflaming people-especially people whose feelings for music force them really to listen. "It's so faint it sounds like angels singing-and that's hell to work with," says an unhappy listener at the Muzakized Ford plant in Dearborn. "It is pallid pap that will cause all our musical teeth to fall out," says Helmut Blume, acting dean of music at Montreal's McGill University. But in all their countless installations, background music hustlers claim to get complaints only from old men in green eyeshades and sleeve garters...
...personal letter to Kennedy, Khrushchev asked the President to realize that he, too, was up against political pressures. Meeting in Moscow, Comecon, the pallid satellite version of the West's Common Market, formally approved the test ban treaty, with Rumania somewhat belatedly in line after a brief flirtation with Peking. As for the Chinese, they denounced the treaty as nothing less than a U.S.-Russian alliance, accused Moscow of perpetrating "a dirty fraud," and of "selling out" Communists everywhere, "including the people of China." The Soviets replied in kind, called the Red Chinese "wild men" who borrow their arguments...
Frilly Flavor. In the generally pallid Sunday-magazine field, the Times entry glows with health. The mass-circulation supplements were created to serve an almost unmanageably diffuse national audience, and lately they seem to have lost the ability to mix the right formula. After 67 years, Hearst's American Weekly, first of the supplements, is preparing to drop out of its last nine papers and fold in September. This Week (14,270,753 circulation in 43 papers) and Parade (10,950,664 in 69) have suffered advertising losses...
...windows of the Mills College Music Building where the old man sat, brittle and aching in his wheelchair. Outside, on a balcony, a college girl dressed in death-wish black and a free-form welder's helmet slithered through snail and snake dances, while on another balcony, a pallid redhead paused in her dance every now and then to tug the string that let a plastic moon pop up from the bushes below. In the branches of a tree on the campus, a girl in red softly sipped from a white teacup that trailed a blue silk ribbon down...