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...North Viet Nam is on the increase. Of late the Viet Cong have boosted their hard-core strength from an estimated 25,000 regulars to 31,000 (not counting 80,000 part-time guerrillas); approximately 25% of the increase is thought to be elite infiltrators from the north. The tempo of tension and terror rises weekly, with the Reds showing no signs of being rolled back...
...problem with pre-Bach music, explains Greenberg, is that "you're never certain exactly what scoring the composer has in mind. All the notes are there, but the composer very rarely put down who was to sing or play them." To the formidable task of determining the tempo, dynamics and instrumentation of the worm-eaten scores, Greenberg brings a composer's skill, a musicologist's interest in research and instinctive good taste. He searches for clues to instrumentation by digging through such obscure miscellanea as the purchasing orders for a 16th-century English town band...
...skinny 20 pages, Tempo cast no greater shadow than a high school freshman at the beach. But it had a commendably professional sheen, and its contents sought to grapple with some of the problems and interests of its peers: a Denver boy's account of how it feels to be a high school dropout, a page of verse composed by an 18-year-old girl, a random assortment of teenage views on public school integration. All this may not have looked like serious competition to the call of the juke joint, but the first run of 5,000 copies...
...Tempo is the extracurricular work of two honor students at Denver's George Washington High School, Harold Goldberg, 18, and Richard Gould, 17. It was started on the strength of an earlier publishing success: the boys cleared $57 on a tabloid newspaper they sold throughout the city's eight high schools. To start their magazine, Goldberg and Gould first signed up 570 advance subscriptions, hustled ads from local merchants and talked the printer into a $200 loan. Tempo's debut absorbed all $720 of the starting capital, but Goldberg and Gould are already laying out two more...
Come fall, the magazine will face a crisis that is surely unique in the annals of periodical publishing: both of its proprietors have to go back to school. "We hope to sell Tempo to someone with enough money to carry on," said young Goldberg hopefully. "Probably an adult who'll hire teen-agers to put it out. I don't think any adult could run Tempo." Added young Gould somewhat more realistically: "That's right. But we'll sell to anybody...