Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Council of the Realm, an appointive 17-man body that advises the King. The Franquistas also insist on an appointed upper house based on the Franco-style corporate system, rather than a popularly elected one. Because of the Bunker's opposition and the recent emergence of a center-right alliance of parties, Suárez may have to accept some modifications in order to obtain the two-thirds majority necessary for passage of the bill. Suárez had previously antagonized archconservatives by, among other things, taking the first steps toward the legalization of trade unions and all political...
Petunia Power. For example, the Forget-Me-Not computer, which will next appear at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto, was financed, with extraordinary largesse, by Honeywell, the for-real computer manufacturer-and is a hilarious sendup of the whole electronic-brain industry. It comes in three parts -"like Henry IV, or whoever it was," according to its creator-all of them visibly risible. It is shaped like an elephant, in accordance, says Emett, with Livingstone's Law: "Memory may hold the door, but elephants never forget." Among its components are an eeny-meeny-miney-mo unit (random selection...
...quiet, intense man who commutes between M.I.T. and the giant particle accelerator at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he is now conducting experiments, Ting was not surprised at the news of his award. The discovery of the J particle, he says frankly, was "revolutionary." Brooklyn-born Richter. who plays squash to keep his weight under control, took his sudden fame philosophically. Says he of his discovery: "I see no immediate practical application of this discovery except in improving the understanding of the universe." But he also remembers that Lord Rutherford, the great British physicist...
Even before its opening in 1962, the management of Lincoln Center was calling it "the finest musical instrument in America." Philharmonic Hall was indeed something to behold-especially the gold mohair seats and the 136 acoustical clouds designed by Leo L. Beranek to hang from the ceiling and reflect the sound. Alas, the $17.7 million hall was something else to hear-strident, cold, weak in bass. In succeeding years, a series of four acoustical repair jobs (total cost: $2.5 million) were made, culminating in the replacement of the entire ceiling in 1969. But to little avail...
...enough money to build another." No worry. The sound of success could be heard both inside and outside the hall. The man responsible was Master Acoustician Cyril M. Harris, 59, who could already boast of the fine sound at the Metropolitan Opera, Washington's (B.C.) Kennedy Center and, most spectacular of all, the two-year-old Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. Conductor Pierre Boulez was pleased because the 110 men and women of the New York Philharmonic no longer had to force their sound and now could hear each other clearly...