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Despite the love and respect for music for which the University is renowned, the college is now suffering from a disgraceful shortage of pianos. The ratio of musicians to instruments is so great--few Houses now have more than one practice piano--that aspiring musicians battle for practice hours days in advance. Precious artistic energy is wasted on manipulating schedules, and outwitting rivals. Physical strength, rather than potential talent, often determines the allotment of time. In the musical life of the Houses, where harmony and cooperation should prevail, discord now reigns...
...week Wall Street's bull was still reluctant. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 25 points in three days, touched a 1966 low of 950.66, then rallied fitfully at week's end to close at 953-scarcely higher than last October. Measured by the important price-earnings ratio, stocks are lower than they were at the low point of the 1962 break. They are now selling at an average 16.3 times expected 1966 earnings, compared to a 17-to-1 ratio in the bleak summer...
...looming in the future-and what the dream is made of-are hordes of returned volunteers: 50,000 by 1970; 200,000 or more by 1980. No on will venture more than a tentative guess about what their effect will be. Half, if the present ratio holds, will go back to school. Many will get Ph.D.'s and settle in. Working together professors and student, they might create the Peace Corps on campus necessary to fashion the dream...
Learning to Think. All over the U.S., medical education is suffering from growing pains. The U.S. needs to produce 11,000 new doctors a year by 1975* to maintain the present, barely adequate ratio of one practicing physician to every 1,000 people. Existing schools turned out only 7,400 graduates last year; enlargement of classes, and at least two dozen new schools, should reach the desired goal by the late 1970s. But the problem of quality will remain. Rising living standards and a growing sophistication in health matters are creating a clamorous demand for the best .in health care...
...save it was a new plane, whose basic design Bob Gross conceived while lingering over coffee one morning in the lobby of Burbank's Union Air Terminal. The plane was Lockheed's Electra 10, a twin-engine, all-metal, ten-passenger ship with the highest load/gross-weight ratio and the lowest price ($36,000) of any comparable aircraft of its time. The Electra 10 sold solidly to U.S. airlines as well as to carriers in Latin America and eight European countries (Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in an Electra...