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BACH WORK made use of highly contained, abstracted movement; the experience of the dancers was based, not so much on ideas, as on immediate, rhythmic relationships, both among themselves and with the music. The dancers did not work with the swell of the music as mood or emotion, but reached constantly to the beat, as if to get as close to the instant as possible by testing every rhythmic tick, or catching it for a ride. The electronically calibrated music, used in three of the works, bore whiffs of the Maxwell house percolator. And the dancers, though graceful, looked...
...guest workers" in West Germany (mostly Turks, Yugoslavs and Italians) will swell to nearly 3,300,000 as German manufacturers rely more heavily on low-paid foreign help to raise their productivity. In German plants, productivity will rise by a steady 5% a year (the long-term U.S. average is 3.1%). The German work week will shrink from 42 to 38 hours...
...need is calculated from the students' parental income, personal resources and living expenses, which is applied to all first-through fifth-year students as a yardstick for determining aid. Under the plan, however, departments can choose to fund students $1000 below their calculated need, and use the difference to swell their number of "merit scholarships," which are awarded at the discretion of department chairmen...
...sell its shares of Gulf Oil stock, the war added to the tumult. Nixon's decision to increase the bombing and to mine Haiphong Harbor in an attempt to stem the North Vietnamese offensive, coincided nicely with the blacks' seizure of Mass Hall. The war prompted unrest; enough to swell the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...
...Nixon Administration. A tax-exempt offshoot of the National Right to Work Committee, which specializes in lobbying against compulsory unionism, the foundation has obviously been gaining great favor among well-heeled individuals and corporations. Its income from donations, which came to only $204,000 in 1969, will swell in 1973 to an estimated...