Word: accordions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of their delegation looked with apprehension at their next stop at Penn Yan, N.Y., a small farming community near Ithaca, although Voschinin, often the group's spokesman, said with a smile before leaving Cambridge, "I'm sure it will be interesting."Group leader, V ADIM LOGINOV 32, and accordion player, V LADIMIR FEDOSEYEV, 27, a music student in Moscow, seem to be enjoying themselves at the International Students' Association building Saturday night where they entertained Americans and others with several Russian national songs...
Strangers at a Wedding. Behind the dome is the glass pavilion, a sprawling (50,000 sq. ft.) building of glass and steel with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. It is the cultural center of the exposition, with everything from a Stuart portrait of Washington to the latest model kitchen. Scrutinizing the latest American modes, the Russian women seemed most impressed by the spectacular wedding sequence. "We used to have that long ago," said one wistful spectator. "But not any more...
Near the domed "Idea Building" will be a fan-shaped, multilevel exhibition hall, glassed in and covered with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. Between the two buildings, the U.S. plastics industry will construct an all-plastic pavilion made of 70 interlocked plastic sections shaped like hexagonal umbrellas. Separate from both will be a display of 21 U.S. auto models, a pool for U.S.-made boats, and a Circarama similar to the 360° movie screen that proved a hit at the Brussels World's Fair...
Society's troubles with amphetamine go back almost 20 years to a time when the most popular inhaler contained Benzedrine (Smith, Kline, & French Laboratories' trade name for one form of amphetamine). Prison wardens complained that accordion-pleated paper fillers loaded with 250 mg. of amphetamine (15 times the average daily dose a doctor would prescribe for reducing or lethargic patients) were being smuggled to convicts, who chewed them and went on violent rampages. Then S.K.F. chemists found a better decongestant, propylhexedrine (not an amphetamine or a stimulant), to put in inhalers, and changed the name to Benze-drex...
...instrument makers even have a plaything for the new stereo bugs: an accordion that can be plugged in so that the treble channels through one speaker while the bass thunders through another...