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Davies should know. He is the music director of the only full-time chamber orchestra in the U.S., the 26-member St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Under his leadership, the St. Paul brilliantly exemplify the virtues of being middle-size. Their Baroque performances are fleet and supple yet they can muster the muscle of Beethoven and Schubert, avoiding only the more elaborately scored late-19th century works. In modern music they have a scintillating bite and precision. Throughout the repertory, their texture is so transparent that it allows for no slack playing, and there is none...
...keep ahead of the uncertainties brought on by supply interruptions, Exxon uses a pair of IBM 3033 computers that are constantly updated with details that show, among other things, where the entire Exxon fleet is at any moment, and toward what ports the ships are headed. Sometimes the telex traffic originated by the so-called LOGICS system takes on real drama. Recently, when LOGICS operators learned that an Exxon tanker was due to call at the Colombian port of Buenaventura, where marauders in small boats are common at night, a message was quickly dispatched to the ship's master: "Beware...
...season the monster that is Yale had shadowed the Crimson with reports of amazing margins of victories--16 seconds over Penn, for instance. Everyone pointed to yesterday's Goldthwait Cup, with Princeton rounding out the fleet, as the showdown for number...
...fleet of swanboats, outfitted in a new coat of white paint, set sail last week for their 101st season plying the waters of a small pond in the middle of the Public Garden. Several hundred people turned up for opening day, all of them, like Byrd, happy to be free from the arctic grip of winter and ready for a leisurely lunch-hour cruise...
When its black hull slipped into the waters off Groton, Conn., last week, the submarine Ohio launched a new era in nuclear warfare. Regarded as one of the world's most sophisticated weapons systems, it is the first of a planned fleet of 13 Trident A-subs. In size alone the Ohio is staggering: its 560-ft. length is five feet longer than the Washington Monument, and its 18,700-ton displacement nearly equals that of World War II's Yorktown-class aircraft carriers. Equally monumental is the ship's $1.25 billion price...