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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...week's end Wein & Co. were singing a sprightlier tune. Performing jazzmen and local merchants were not pressing for their bills, ticket holders might be refunded with jazz albums instead of cash, and so it looked as if the festival would just about break even. While power shovels scooped heaps of beer cans off the streets, talk about permanent cancellation ("This means the end of the Newport Jazz Festival," Founder Louis L. Lorillard had said in the dark weekend hours) had all but disappeared...
Even without the riots, the rebels feel, the old-style Newport Festival was doomed-it was too big, too square and too interested in box office instead of music. Even if the festival is revived next year, it will hardly be the same again. Langston Hughes summed...
...told President Eisenhower about the historic last days of the U.S.'s Pioneer V, man's most successful deep space probe. Pioneer's tiny five-watt radio transmitter had been designed to send messages until the probe was 5,000,000 miles away from the earth. Instead it kept sending and sending, getting its power from the solar cells on the probe's four "paddles." The 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank kept listening. On June 26, Pioneer V sent a last six-minute message, bravely reporting the cosmic conditions around it. At that moment...
...rate, which is 3? to 7? higher than on most U.S. railroads, to bring it in line with other roads. The union rejected both the offer and the company's version of the facts. A five-day week, said the Brotherhood, would involve hiring only 28 extra men instead of the 130 the railroad talked about...
...amount of sugar that the U.S. would buy from Cuba during the rest of 1960, world sugar prices dropped 3 to 8 points, i.e., hundredths of a cent a pound, in expectation of the cut -and in fear that Cuba would dump its surplus sugar on the world market. Instead, Cuba raised its minimum export price from $3 to $3.25 a hundred pounds in an effort to recover part of its losses on sugar sales. Thereupon, in heavy trading world sugar futures shot up again, only to level off at week...