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...radius centrifuge that can be supplied with food and cleansed of waste while it is running. On it, generations of rodents can be born and spend their entire lives under uninterrupted higher G. loads. From the responses of test animals-eventually including primates-Oyama hopes to predict the effects on astronauts of space trips that last for months and even years...
...musicianship, and monkey business--with the present emphasis on improving the second--is rapidly creating out of the clubby organization a real wind ensemble. Problems remain, but on the basis of the improvement over the previous concert, one can of the improvement over the previous concert, one can safely predict that, given time, Walker will surmount...
...years, that splurge only symbolizes the vast change that has overtaken retailing. In the past ten years the number of shopping centers in the U.S. and Canada has quadrupled to 10,900. Last year they accounted for an estimated 39% of retail sales. And shopping-center experts predict that nearly 80% of North America's new retail space will go into the 650 shopping centers being built and the thousands more being expanded this year at a cost of $4.3 billion...
RECORDINGS Elvira, Meet Wolfgang It is impossible to predict where a composer's next record hit will come from, even if the composer is Mozart. A case in point is Deutsche Grammophon's 1965 release of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, played by Hungarian-born Pianist Geza Anda. In three years it had sold a mere 2,000 copies in the U.S. Then a passage from the recording turned up as a recurrent, haunting theme on the sound track of the Swedish film Elvira Madigan, which opened in New York City last October. Deutsche Grammophon slapped...
...nowhere in sight. Last week a European subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph floated a $50 million issue. Honeywell was devising final terms for a $30 million offering to be sold later in the month, and National Biscuit Co. also announced a $30 million issue. Underwriters predict that U.S. companies will soon announce plans to sell as much as another $200 million worth. "People have been flabbergasted by the volume," says Zurich Banker Hans...