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...strictly binaural sounds from the lavishly designed exhibition rooms of this year's New England High Fidelity Music Show. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the show featured all conceivable kinds of music reproduction equipment, from the standards of Bogen, Scott and Electro-Voice to the Grundig, Grado and Glasser-Steers para-phernalia. Even radio stations such as WXHR maintained promotional booths featuring such novelties as FM car receivers...
...level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations of the Roman Catholic faithful knocked on doors, organized dances, showed documentary films depicting De Gasperi's life, the Hungarian revolt, and the economic progress made under Christian Democratic rule...
Only after he has slowed down to about 3,000 m.p.h. will the pilot be able to set his air brake -open a stainless steel para chute. The shock that this produces may be the worst...
...Spanish Composer Joaquin Rodrigo's Fantasia para Gentilhombre, performed by the San Francisco Symphony under Spanish Conductor Enrique Jordá, with famed Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia as soloist. Said blind Joaquin Rodrigo, 55, Spain's No. 1 contemporary composer: "I was afraid to compose a work for so great a guitarist." Replied Segovia: "I was afraid to perform it." After the low Spanish bows were over, soloist and orchestra set to work, unveiled an appealing, fastidious, slightly melancholy piece whose dance rhythms gave Segovia's guitar a chance to enthrall the audience...
...dispute centers on Edwards' stubborn fight against Florida's "early-release" policy, which has cut the average TB patient's hospital stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities...