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Last week Howard Swanson got another boost. The New York Music Critics Circle judged Short Symphony (twelve minutes) the best new orchestral work heard in Manhattan last season...
When aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy make ready to launch their planes, they turn into the wind and steam at high speed. But even with a stiff breeze whipping across the flight deck, attack bombers and jet fighters often need a large and cumbersome catapult to boost them up to flying speed. And on a hot, calm day, the thrust of this giant slingshot is barely enough to toss them aloft...
...Gunnar Gundersen, an A.M.A. trustee who had halfway accepted a bid to serve on the commission, backed out hastily, saying it was designed "as an instrument of practical politics ... a masquerade." Dr. Magnuson called his commission together in Washington this week to begin figuring out how to boost the supply of doctors, dentists and nurses and spread them more evenly across the land; to set up more local public-health units; to speed medical research; to minister to the chronically ill and the aged; finally, to decide how all these services could best be paid for. Said Dr. Magnuson...
...industries have grown faster than natural gas in the last five years, largely because gas was so much cheaper than coal. Last week, the Federal Power Commission switched on a green light for gas prices to go scooting up. FPC approved a 15% rate boost ($11.4 million) for Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., one of the biggest U.S. gas pipelines. Thus FPC signified that it will okay a large part of $93 million in other boosts which 28 additional companies are seeking. As a sample of what this may mean to the consumer, Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. has already asked Michigan...
...University seems to be gripped in a wave of post-season munificence. Student porters have received a pay boost, undergraduates in the College employment plan a preview of things to come, and the weary in inmates of Widener a row of fluorescent lights. But it the Undergraduate Activities Committee's concessions to the Student Council rules petition were an attempt to get on the bandwagon, they were too little and too late...