Word: instrumentalities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
This fall, well-heeled and busy, Swanson decided to buy a company that had some defense orders. Last week, he got the one he wanted. For $5,300,000, he bought Square D Co.'s famed Kollsman Instrument Division, which makes altimeters, airspeed indicators, guided missile components, etc. Kollsman, now operating below capacity, will not pass officially into Swanson's hands until Dec. 30. When will Kollsman be at peak production again? Said cocky Glenn Swanson: "Late that afternoon...
...Late for Miracles. Neither the French nor their chosen native instrument, Bao Dai, showed any signs last week of being able to work miracles. Chief of State Bao Dai recently flew to Hanoi, supposedly to bolster the people's morale in the face of an expected Communist offensive. Bao Dai arrived in his C-45, which also carried a Scotty named Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit...
...rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...
Beethoven's late works for the piano are among the greatest written for the instrument. They are fantastically difficult to comprehend and to play. Hearing them well performed can be a completely overpowering experience. Webster Aitken is giving a series of three programs of these works in Sanders Theatre. He is a remarkable pianist, and his performances have been superb. Aitken has obviously studied these pieces carefully, and has very definite ideas on their interpretation. Naturally, these ideas are open to criticism, but with very few reservations, I found his playing convincing. Furthermore, he has a technique equal...