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...vocal variable, to be interpreted by the vibrations. In his enthusiasm for "body language"-the things said by facial expressions, gestures, posture -Farb goes far beyond most scholars of the new linguistics. "Pupil performance," he proclaims, "does not depend so much upon a school's audio-visual equipment or new textbooks or enriching trips to museums as it does upon teachers whose body language communicates high expectations...
...Richard H. Bolt, chairman of Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., sound experts; Franklin S. Cooper, president of Haskins Laboratories; James L. Flanagan, head of acoustics research at Bell Telephone Laboratories; John G. McKnight, audio and magnetic recording consultant; Thomas G. Stockham Jr., computer science professor at the University of Utah; and Mark R. Weiss, vice president for acoustics research of Federal Scientific Corp...
...Yeeeeaaaahhhh!" screams Edgar Winter, whitest of rock stars. And in his bizarre assault on the senses Sunday night at the Orpheum, the younger Winter showed that he can handle jazz and rock and roll as well. For 90 minutes and three encores, his four-man band put on an audio-visual demonstration that left his rabid fans blinded, deafened and musically impressed...
Another expert, Mortimer Goldberg, technical operations supervisor for CBS Radio, says that such a malfunction on an original recording would not create an overriding steady tone. "I've been working with tape recorders for 23 years and I've never heard the audio completely replaced by a solid tone," he reports. This would happen only during a rerecording, he says. Such a tone could be deliberately created with an audio signal generator (a device used to inject a desired tone to test or adjust audio circuits), but this could be easily distinguished, he explains, from the sound generated...
...Normal U.S. house current alternates at 60 cycles, which is an audible frequency. It can be radiated through adjacent unshielded wires, resulting in a hum when one of the wires is related to an audio amplifier circuit...