Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting artists ever get to Port-of-Spain, its capital, just off the coast of Venezuela. But Trinidadians may well be the world's most musical people. Out of prosaic newspaper headlines they created calypso songs, and out of such unmusical items as oil drums and automobile brake drums they created the world's newest musical combo, the steelband (pronounced steelbon in Trinidad). Both were invented with sure instinct for novelty and self-expression by Trinidad's Negro population...
...Invaders, who are credited with introducing bouncing massed "riffs" in harmony, and thus paralleling the transition of U.S. jazz from Dixieland counterpoint to the massed effects of swing. Today the steelband has swept the Caribbean islands-there is a severe short age of oil drums and automobile brake drums. The music is also penetrating the U.S. through recordings and tours by stray bands. Last week Record-Maker Emory Cook carried his microphones and tape recorders right into the parade to capture steelbands...
...Station Brake. In Marietta, Ohio, Raymond Ray won a divorce from his wife Regina Bell Ray after testimony that she watched TV every night until the last station signed off, forbade him to talk to her except during the commercials...
...leaving the Union fire at 1:30 p.m. as James A. Sanderson, driving his empty bus back to the Square to reload, his a patch of ice in front of Plympton St. Sanderson was only traveling at five miles per hour, but, he later recalled, "I just touched the brake...
Some of the changes are soon to come. The automatic radar brake will be one of the most startling changes to be introduced by one automaker on 1957 models. The brake will be operated by a radar screen, built inconspicuously into the radiator grill. As the radar-equipped car approaches any object ahead, e.g., another car or a garage door, the radar screen will flash an impulse to the brakes, which will slow down or stop the car. The mechanism will be geared to take into account the speed of the car as well as the distance. For example...