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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...structure in a 1, 4, 5 progression. It usually has 12 bars though this can be varied to 8, 16 or any multiple of 4. It is usually in 4/4 time but it can be fitted to other rhythm patterns as well. There is a Blues chromatism or Blues scale which has African origins and differs from the West European scale. In order to play the correct Blues notes it is necessary to bend or flatten certain notes. This is achieved in different ways on different instruments. On the guitar the Blues notes are played by bending the strings which...
Surprised Senator. At the other end of the social-economic scale, the Securities and Exchange Commission has continued the vigorous enforcement policies that Richard Nixon criticized in the campaign as "heavy-handed." Any Administration's influence over the SEC is limited because the commission members serve for specific terms. However, the President can change the chairman at any time, and it is Chairman Manuel Cohen who has promoted strong regulation of the securities industry. Nixon so far has not replaced him, but is expected to name Hamer Budge, the commission's ranking Republican, to the chairmanship. Budge...
Across the Volga. According to Lockard, several factors disqualify the rat as an experimental animal. The first is that the laboratory rat, originally Rattus norvegicus and an indigene of Asia, crossed the Volga River into Europe only 250 years ago. On history's ample scale, it is a newcomer; its rapid diffusion, combined with rapid breeding, makes of the Norway rat an animal that is still in violent evolutionary motion. To arrest it, as in the laboratory, says Lockard, is to claim validity for a motion-picture still...
Charged with responsibility for devel oping long-range policy positions, he must daily consider such weighty issues as the effects of using the oceans for disposal of wastes, the need for international agreements to halt despoiling of the environment, and the possibility of large-scale re-use of waste water. Despite such earthly responsibilities, Singer, who is a physicist by training, also finds time to promote ideas that are truly out of this world...
...When Brentano's bought Phillips," claims Ann Williams '69-2, a former Brentano clerk and a member of the labor committee, "the wage scale at Phillips was higher than it is now. Since then," she said, "they have hired new people at a lower rate of minimum wage...