Word: swans
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...million in three years. All told, more than 320 modern plants are active in metal fabrication, electronics, optical instruments, diesel engines and other fields. Along with low labor costs, they get easy access to Asian markets from Singapore's key location at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. Swan Hunter International, a British shipbuilding and repairing firm, is using that geographical fillip to advantage. Noting that no fewer than 127 mammoth tankers of more than 200,000 tons are on order throughout the world, the company is expanding repair facilities at the naval base to handle the ships that...
...hippies who were treated so ungraciously on the Common this past summer, when it announced "The Sound and Light Experience." Plans had been submitted by PULSA, a research group from the Department of Art at Yale, to install 55 strobe lights under the surface of the normally staid Swan Pond, and to surround the Public Garden with 52 polyplaner speakers. The whole computer operated program promised "a factual, physiological experience of rhythmic patternings of light and sound energies, the rate and scale of which resemble the neuro-electrical basis of human consciousness...
Equally impressive was Blair's Swan Lake, which had its Ballet Theater premiere in 1967. After a year of living with the production, the company is able to bring to a performance some thing far more rare than mechanical perfection: aristocratic authority. And Ballet Theater fortunately possesses at least one ballerina with the promise of becoming an outstanding swan queen: 21-year-old Cynthia Gregory...
...announced a drive to save the historic regiment, and one of the first men to sign their petition was the Duke of Argyll, Sir Ian Douglas Campbell, a descendant of the unit's traditional officer clan. But unless Whitehall recants-and it seldom does-the Argylls played their swan song as they piped themselves out of Aden...
Although the new A.M.A. resolution is a step in the right direction, it will probably be years before Negro physicians and surgeons achieve professional equality. "The conditions faced by black doctors-and patients-have improved in recent years," says Dr. Lionel Swan, a Detroit G.P. and president of the National Medical Association, who was a guest at the A.M.A. convention last week. But Swan points out that Negro doctors are still excluded from hospital-staff membership almost everywhere in the Deep South. In other regions, they are admitted only as token members. Negro specialists rarely receive referrals from white doctors...