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According to the tenth annual report released by Broadcast Music Inc., 582 U.S. orchestras played a total of 5,877 concerts during the 1968-69 season...
...Nijinsky has raced exclusively in England and Ireland and he has never lost. For his tenth victory, a race against all the best older horses in England. Nijinsky sauntered by his foes with remarkable ease while the best rider in Europe, Lester Piggot, pulled hard on the reins...
...examine the plight of the nation's elderly, TIME focuses its cover story this week on the nearly forgotten tenth of the U.S. population, the 20 million Americans who have passed the arbitrary milestone of 65 into the limbo of old age. The result is a long, hard and often shocking but occasionally hopeful look at what we are doing and failing to do for our elderly, and a guide to what we must do if we are to restore meaning to their lives...
...talked to 820 students, a cross-section from 50 colleges. Of that group, an overwhelming 89% believe that public pressure can gradually alter government policies. Astonishingly, 39% said they personally planned to work for peace candidates in the congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns this fall. Even if only a tenth of that number actually turn out, Harris calculates, there will be 200,000 students out on the hustings around the U.S. "The experiment could well change American politics beyond recognition," Harris says. "The students could virtually swamp the political process." Or, he adds, they could stir up an enormous anti...
...runs, only her competitors are embarrassed. Undefeated so far this season, she has established herself as the world's foremost female track star. At the National A.A.U. Championships in Los Angeles, she ran the 220-yd. dash in 22.6 sec., besting her own world record by one-tenth of a second. Last month the muscular (5 ft. 7½ in., 136 lb.) Chi set a world record of 10 sec. flat in the 100-yd. dash. Having posted the season's best marks in four different events, Chi finds it hard to specialize her training. "Hurdles are supposed...