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...often afflicts stories about musicians. Al Young's hero is MC Moore, a guitarist and songwriter for a teen-age group called the Masters of Ceremony. The Masters are one of countless Detroit combos manned by young blacks, hungrily looking for gigs and chances to record. In his peak year MC writes 75 songs. One of them, Snakes, becomes a modest local hit, earning the Masters a few hundred dollars as well as some small sense of accomplishment. One by one, though, MC's friends lose sight of their musical dream, and in the end he goes alone...
...Elsie's (75a Mt. Auburn St.) is more flamboyant, and specializes in feeding you huge amounts of delicatessen sandwiches. Hazen's (just next door) is stronger on the basic hamburgers and French fries. It is also not as densely crowded as Elsie's during the peak dinner hours...
McElroy, a physicist at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, served as a member of the NASA Lunar and Planetary missions board, for whom he produced studies of the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter...
...Midwest. The council recommends an ad campaign urging citizens to reduce power demands by turning off unnecessary lights. It also wants to link the Midwest's power resources with those of the Missouri Valley and the Pacific Northwest. Thus power could be shunted back and forth to meet peak load requirements in the three regions-each of which lies in a different time zone. Finally, the council suggests revising the formulas for determining the price of power so that the more electricity a consumer uses, the more he pays. At present most utilities reduce rates for big users...
Despite the stress of unending war, Israel's economy is buoyant, though the peak of the country's boom has passed. Television sales were off one-third in the first quarter of 1970, but that might have been because the market was nearly saturated, with 250,000 sets in Israeli homes. Auto sales are currently down one-third, but there was a buying spree late last year in anticipation of new taxes. Higher income taxes and increased compulsory savings have reduced buying power by more than one-quarter this year and have caused some grumbling, but most Israelis...