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...schools are also thrown open for family roller skating on Sunday afternoons (plastic skate wheels protect gymnasium floors). There are classes in bowling, bridge, badminton and ballroom dancing. The Mott approach is to use recreation as a lure to coax people into continued learning. "You bring people in for a little knitting class," explains Frank Manley, executive director of Mott Foundation projects. "Then you get a little serious sewing-then you build on that, and first thing you know you've got a terrific home economics course going." All the newer schools have a built-in "community room" open...
Since Kraft also happens to be Mehta's principal tympanist, it was not surprising that he made extra use of such percussion esoterica as roto-toms (a set of small tuned drums), muted gongs, anvils and Chinese wind chimes. What was unusual and effective, however, was the relaxed, jazzy undercoating that showed that even an age of turmoil and anxiety can have fun. But Contextures mainly had to do with fierce tensions and dissonances in which various sections of the orchestra played frenetically against each other. "I suppose this is a belligerent work," says Kraft. "But that...
Piped & Repiped. When she first read scientific reports about the crop experiments in India, University of Ottawa Biologist Pearl Weinberger was amused and unimpressed; apparently none of the Indian work had been performed with the use of proper laboratory controls, and the reports carried no statistical analysis of the results Dr. Weinberger's curiosity was aroused enough to lead her to sound experiments...
This summer dry, sound-treated seeds be planted outside the laboratory on an experimental farm, where they will sprout, reach maturity and produce the grain yield per plant shows a substantial increase over plants from untreated seed, Dr.Weinberger be11eves, the time may be ripe for practical use of the sound technique For only $300, she says, a sma11 farmer could then buy an oscillator and a speaker to stimulate his wheat seed into highly profitable growth...
...years of living mostly on bonds and aid from abroad. The country intends to increase overall production by 40% over the next four years and to raise exchange-earning industrial exports by 60%, to $725 million a year. Finance Minister Pinas Sapir frankly called on the visiting group to use its "know-how and connections" to raise much of the $750 million in new capital that would be needed...