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Some of the devices built in Cambridge are for use with telescopes and other instruments at the half-dozen or so stations in the United States and abroad where University astronomers are working; others are designed to observe the universe from satellites above the earth's obscuring atmosphere. The following is a report on three of these new electronic instruments, each of which peers through a different window in the electromagnetic spectrum: the infrared, the far ultraviolet, and the radio...
...real optimism hung over the Olympic trials. Seven times last year. U.S. skiers beat Europe's best. And this year, their performance at Sun Valley and Mount Alyeska was so good that U.S. Olympic Coach Bob Beattie could predict: ''We've got a half-dozen skiers who can win at Innsbruck.'' Beattie's best...
...Lees and other gifted composers like him a never-ending grant to keep them going. In an age when almost no composers are turning their talents to the delicate mysteries of the violin concerto, Lees has written a small masterpiece. If all goes well and it is played a half-dozen times, he may earn as much as $200 from the concerto over the next few years...
Anyone with a slight touch of dissent in his makeup had better see at least half-a-dozen plays currently showing off-Broadway before getting around to the name-brand tranquilizers of the Broadway showshops. But he had better not go much beyond a half-dozen, for the major consequence of off-Broadway's startling ten-year growth has been to dilute its quality in a flood of vanity productions, vapid revivals and Art subverted by Commerce. Off-Broadway entrenched itself as an artistic rebuke to Broadway; increasingly, it is becoming a shoddy sibling rival...
...cult follows Tommy Flanagan. In almost perfect secret, he has played with all the jazz giants for a half-dozen years, cheerfully accepting their styles, ingeniously enriching them with his own. But with his name still an italic footnote to somebody else's accomplishment, he has developed into one of the best jazz pianists now playing...