Word: cage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obsolete equipment and backbreaking labor to eke out small hauls from old veins. Close by the small town of Marcinelle is the mine called Amercoeur, the "Bitter Heart." There one morning last week, 302 miners-115 of them Belgians, 139 Italians-dropped 3,105 ft. underground in their steel-cage elevators to their daily jobs at the coal face. Above ground the miners' families, mostly poor Italians imported with their husbands from overpopulated Italy,* went about their chores...
...carnies, and treated as equals. The conditioned freaks are barely tolerated as "gaffs." Among the gaffs, the "geek"-usually an alcoholic who earns his bottle by biting the heads off live snakes and chickens-is the lowest form of carnival life. The Jungle Girl, who must crawl around a cage of snakes and make animal noises, is only a little higher. But sometimes the jungle girls can double usefully as "sticks"-employees who pretend to be tips in order to attract others...
...Banking. At the Mechanics and Farmers Savings Bank, Bridgeport, Conn., Mosler Safe Co. has installed a closed television circuit and loudspeaker system connecting an indoor teller's cage with a curbside depositor's booth. Deposits and receipts are sped through a 100-ft. pneumatic tube. Mosler plans eventually to install remote-control bank booths at subway and rail stations, main intersections...
Many modern composers are dissatisfied-or just plain bored-with the sounds of conventional instruments. To rectify this situation, they go to many lengths. New York Composer John Cage doctors his piano tone with bits of hardware. France's Pierre Schaeffer and his followers in musique concrete create unworldly compositions out of worldly sounds on tape recorders. Today, on both sides of the Atlantic, composers are experimenting with a sound source with an unplumbed potential for novelty and expression: electronic sound generators...
Primal Color. In Memphis, Bookkeeper Clara Bell Olds cashed a $6,000 check for her boss, ran off with the money, explained after her arrest: "When they shoved all that long green through the cage, I just couldn't resist...