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Although prices are stiff (as much as $6,000 for a good modern instrument), there are several thousand harpsichords scattered about the country today, where there were only 500 or so a decade ago. Until 1949, there was only one noted harpsichord maker in the U.S.; now there are half a dozen. The do-it-yourself trend has taken hold, too; in the Boston area alone, during the past two years, a dozen harpsichords have been built by amateurs. At least 50 colleges and music schools offer special harpsichord courses...
...investigations have already circled around another high Chrysler executive. Jack Minor, marketing director of the Plymouth-De Soto-Valiant division, admitted that he was a principal owner and director until early this year of a Detroit company called Taxi-Ads, into which Chrysler has paid several hundred thousand dollars for advertising during the last eight years. Detroit insiders think that Minor may be the next to go. If he does, he probably will not be the last. From Washington came word that the Securities and Exchange Commission is studying the Newburg case to determine whether anyone violated SEC proxy regulations...
...monument to the vision and tenacity of a wiry, blue-eyed cowboy named Ralph Bramel Lloyd, who died in 1953 when his dream was only on the drawing board. The son of a Missouri Confederate Army officer, Lloyd moved to California at eleven when his family bought several thousand acres of ranch land in Ventura. One day his father, out riding, came across a grass fire, spurred his horse to the bare ground of a knoll for safety. When the fire reached the knoll, the ground suddenly burst into shooting flame. Lloyd leaped off his horse, breaking...
When the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea needed a new air supply, it came to the surface, blew noisily like a winded whale and filled its reservoirs with two days' supply of compressed air. This simple system was good enough for the imaginary Nautilus of 1870, but the real SS(N) Nautilus and her nuclear sisters of the modern U.S. Navy need better air, and are designed to stay submerged for months on end. In Naval Research Reviews the Naval Research Laboratory tells how their little worlds are kept almost...
...performance pantomimist in a Seattle jazz joint called No Place: William O. Douglas Jr., 28, son of the Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...