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...nation's biggest in more than half a century - is testing four systems of computer-controlled train operation proposed by General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, Westinghouse Air Brake and General Signal. With all this going on, industry experts predict that annual sales of all types of transit equipment will soar from today's $100 million to $660 million...
...cost of living continues to rise, the price of a good lawyer continues to soar - so much that equal justice is still an empty platitude for the 60% of criminal defendants who cannot afford even a bad counsel. State courts are now trying the remedy of paid public defendants. But federal courts are still without the means to pay even court-appointed lawyers. Last week a U.S. district judge in Oregon blasted this anomaly with a broad-gauged decision that may not only cost Washington a great deal of money, but may be the neatest constitutional argument of the year...
Sculpture must defy gravity, says Alberto Collie, and by using magnets he performs feats of levitation with objects made of aluminum, copper and magnesium. Though Collie's magnetized sculptures do not soar with full air borne freedom, they do hover and float* above their pedestals, attached by almost imperceptible nylon strings. The effect is playful and magical-rather like Collie himself, who combines the hot-eyed zeal of a young Merlin with the twinkle-eyed grin of a boy with a toy. Collie, 25, calls his works spatial-absolutes: spatial because they are floating in space, absolute because...
...high, and can become skyhigh. Pilots who handle the large jets begin at $6,000 to $6,720 the first year, then soar to some $35,000, plus many benefits, by the ninth year-for 85 airborne hours a month...
Jazz DIZZY GILLESPIE & THE DOUBLE SIX OF PARIS (Philips) soar from high spot to high spot, from Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be to Ow. Dizzy does blithe acrobatics with his trumpet, then stands aside for the legendary expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clark to shine briefly on piano and drums. In the meanwhile, the Double Six, a sextet of jazz singers, chime in like an instrumental combo, and Mimi Perrin, who has an extraordinarily agile voice, even takes on a couple of solos meant for Charlie Parker's horn...