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...acoustic environment, but Bruce has experimented extensively with the room, and he employs a number of interesting devices in achieving just the right type of sound. For instance, he has hung sheet blankets a short distance from all the walls and covered the entire floor with thick carpets to soften the reverberations. The result of his efforts is still a rather "live" room, but one which is infinitely comfortable to listen in. Most listening is done at a distance of fifteen to twenty feet from the speakers. This seems to add to the illusion of live performance, since imperfections such...
...discrimination in the local area. Writing with much urgency but less skill, Alan Gartner has nothing new to say about the difficulties of Negroes looking for jobs and homes. Indeed, his concern is not to enlighten, but to win recruits. He includes no more information than is necessary to soften up the reader for the inevitable appeal in the final paragraph: CORE needs...
...customs official, a ruddy man with an immense fur overcoat and Russian style hat, is even more humorless than his American counterpart. This particular one showed no response whatsoever to one tourist's pathetic attempts to cope with a Serbo-Croatian customs form, though his stoniness did finally soften when another tourist requested extra stamps for her passport. For a moment, he relaxed his suspicious glare, smiled, and stamped her passport three more times...
...commission therefore recommended federal assistance: "agricultural aid to depressed areas undergoing change, Small Business Administration loans to help diversify the economy, assistance in training and relocating farm families who are displaced-these and other measures can soften the impact of disturbing economic changes, and in doing so promote the kind of economic climate that encourages better race relations." Concluded the report: "Where poverty exists, liberty is always in peril...
Next month Fuoss will send the rejuvenated Post to the newsstands, complete with a new price: 20? instead of 15?. To soften up the public, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn will soon kick off a $1,250,000 nationwide ad drive. The Post's new look and stance, said an adman who went to Philadelphia for a close look at the revamped format, "may infuriate some long-term readers, and there may be turnover in the audience. But it is good enough to bring in new readers as fast as it loses old ones." Fuoss says that...