Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partially patched up with strips of black plywood. Slabs of plywood and plaster are mounted behind sides of stage. Balconies are reshaped. Lead curtain is hung behind blue-and-gold mesh screen at rear of stage. Sound-dampening Fiberglas is spread across rear wall. Total cost: $500,000. Bell Telephone Laboratories sends man to evaluate hall's sound with new space-age computer. Machine says major problems-lack of bass, uneven distribution of sound, fluttery echoes-are largely corrected. Critics say machine has flipped circuit; their ears hear otherwise. Musicians say now it is like playing in the bottom...
...strafing attacks, troop hauling, supply runs, rescue missions and reconnaissance. Success in war is also producing spectacular results for the $900 million-a-year helicopter industry. With the increasing U.S. commitment in Viet Nam the Pentagon this year has ordered an additional $600 million worth of helicopters from Bell, Hughes Tool and Boeing-Vertol, which are (along with Sikorsky) the leaders of the industry...
...minimal down-time in Viet Nam has vastly increased the use of the turbine engine, which provides more power than pistons and can fly about four times longer without an overhaul. The most common helicopter in Viet Nam up to now has been the workhorse Huey (the nickname for Bell's UH-1B), but the trend today is toward larger, more powerful craft. Vertol's 44-passenger, turbine-powered Chinook has already gone into service, and the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) is using Sikorsky's turbine-powered CH-54As-or Skycranes-which can carry...
Added Advantage. These innovations have spurred helicopter manufacturers to take a fresh look at the civilian market. While awaiting Pentagon approval for its HueyCobra, Bell this week showed off a new civilian helicopter-a five-seat Jet Ranger that goes 140 m.p.h., lifts 1,500 Ibs. and is 50% more economical to operate than piston helicopters. Hughes is producing a civilian version of its observation helicopter, and Fairchild Miller, which lost out to Hughes in the military competition, is pushing its FH-1100 as a turbine-driven, $85,000 executive plane...
Died. Dr. Robert Runnels Williams, 79, India-born chemist and longtime (1925-46) Bell Telephone chemical director, who in 1910 began independent research into the cause of the Orient's mysterious and killing beriberi disease, in 1934 found that the problem was a lack of thiamine, or vitamin Bl, derived from natural bran that rice-eating populations generally remove when polishing their rice; in Summit...