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...that the ancient music of India is also the nation's most popular music. It has caught on so rapidly during the last decade that Shankar and other top artists (who get up to $2,000 a performance) have no difficulty drawing crowds of 40,000 to open-air music festivals...
...known genre-the Australian western. Author Ronan's sunburnt bloody stockman is a dwarfish near-albino of repulsive appearance and character, named Tony Yates. His father, an ex-convict, used to beat his gin-sodden mother with his wooden leg; a sister was active in a sort of open-air bordello, and Tony himself was sold to a cattle thief at twelve. At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that its "West" is, if not as wild, at least a great deal woollier than the U.S. West will...
Friends & Family. Under the concrete canopy of the Center, there will be an open-air Friendship Promenade which can serve as an exhibition hall, concert hall or picnic ground for the whole community. Indeed, parents are expected to hang around the school almost as much as the children-which is why the outdoor theater is called the Family Bowl...
...Just beyond the Triangle, rising from the Lower Hill slums, will be a $14 million, 14,000-seat civic auditorium with a fold-back dome to let the sky in for open-air spectacles. Growing around it will be a colony of civic, cultural and middle-income apartment buildings. Toward the outskirts the University of Pittsburgh will complete two new schools for medicine and public-health services in 1957 (cost: $20 million...
...dinner. Out of this sum, the girls prepare breakfast in the house and eat dinner on a per capita basis. And with clever shopping, the small dinner allotment can be cut, as it was in Everett last year to 20 cents. Occasionally, such economy requires a drive to the open-air market in Haymarket Square for bulk purchases...