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...Full Sphere. Last year's festival, the most successful ever, netted $50,000 (including $5,000 to establish a free clinic for narcotics-addicted jazzmen). The 1958 festival is almost certain to clear even more than that. But as Newport's popularity with the public soars, its reputation among jazzmen is declining. They regard it as a giant public relations carnival-"a jazz supermarket," Trumpeter Davis calls it. Saxophonist Desmond feels that Newport is all right "for the young fellows just getting started," but that established stars "have nothing specially to gain, and the critics present can give...
...wife of Festival Founder Louis L. Lorillard. Says she: "We've been chided for putting on a show, as if it were degrading for jazz to be played in theatrical surroundings for money . . . But we see no point in jazz being private and ingrown. Jazz is a full sphere, not an empty circle...
Generally speaking, this has been the case. Each agency is more or less autonomous in its own sphere. Managers are required only to keep records and to submit occasional reports to the corporation. Aside from several infrequent meetings with Dustin Burke, general manager of HSA and Director of Student Employment, few students have any connection with the intricacies of the organization...
...Sphere of Nothing. When the rocket reaches the orbit, the nitrogen inflates the balloon and pops it out of its container. When all the gas has left the capsule, the balloon is erected into a sphere 30 in. in diameter. The pressure inside it (.2 lb.) is enough to stretch the wrinkles out of the aluminum film and make it mirror smooth. After doing this job, the nitrogen escapes into the vacuum outside. O'Sullivan wants to get rid of it because the balloon may be punctured by a meteor, and a jet of gas escaping from it might...
...Sullivan's modest sphere would not be conspicuous to the naked eye, but it could be picked up easily with low-power moonwatch telescopes. Its great virtue would be its short life. Even on a comparatively high orbit, the tenuous bubble of nothing would be slowed by faint traces of air on the threshold of space. Following a circular course 300 miles above the earth, it would live for only about ten days, and its rapid changes of speed and altitude would measure air density much more accurately than the slow responses of heavier satellites...