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...fact, some observers predict that "sound pictures" may prove to be the medium through which the Beatles-and the more adventurous rock groups in their wake-can merge with "classical" contemporary music. Already, says Robert Tusler, who teaches 20th century music at U.C.L.A., "the Beatles have taken over many of the electronic concepts in music that have been worked on by the German composers of the Cologne group. They've made an enormous contribution to electronic music...
...hauling crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam has jumped from $2.90 to $18.60 a ton. Salvage experts figure that the handful of scuttled ships blocking the waterway could be cleared away in a month, but silting from its sandy banks may require fresh dredging. Oilmen glumly predict that Egypt's Nasser will keep the artery closed at least until year's end and perhaps indefinitely. He can afford to sacrifice his chief source of foreign exchange because other Arab states promised in Khartoum to give Egypt a $266 million-a-year subsidy-about equal...
...dare ask. Taxes are several times higher, and though the Viet Cong rail against the government's draft laws, which conscript young men at 20 for three years' service, the Communists take boys as young as 14 and 15 for service until the end of a war that they predict may last another 20 years. Promises of a better life and a certain Viet Cong victory are belied almost daily by the burgeoning graves of Communist dead...
...billion over June to a record seasonally adjusted annual rate of $627.1 billion. The news reflected higher pay for wage earners and a reduction in unemployment. Also, last month the work week picked up, after a slight decline in June, meaning more overtime and part-time employment. Government economists predict that with the upward swing of the economy-and with the return to school of students who filled jobs during the summer-the currently unemployed will be offered an expanding work market. ∙CORPORATE PROFITS. After a sharp dip during the first quarter, profits began a comeback during the second...
...similar events in the future." Insurance companies will certainly try to cut their losses-especially for any future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson in the ghettos will result in higher insurance premiums and outright policy cancellations. To guard against the latter, both the Michigan and New Jersey state insurance commissioners asked for-and got-pledges that most insurance companies would refrain from canceling ghetto policies for 90 days...