Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edward H. Litchfield, 53, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1965, while also holding down the board chairmanship of S.C.M. (Smith-Corona Marchant) Corp. and a handful of other executive positions; when the light plane carrying him, his mother, his wife and two children, and a pilot crashed into Lake Michigan. Steeped in administration as a top aide to Lucius Clay during the occupation of Germany, Litchfield was dean of Cornell's business school in 1955 when Pitt chose him as chancellor; in no time, he had kicked off a $126 million program to expand...
Eight Gigahertz. The M.I.T. team also had to design a new radar transmitter that would operate at eight gigahertz (pronounced with hard gs), which is 8 billion cycles per second. Radar beams of lower frequency would be significantly slowed down by electrons in the solar corona, making it difficult to separate out the delay actually caused by the sun's gravity. Corrections for Mercury's surface irregularity had to be calculated; round-trip time to a Mercurial valley would be longer than to a mountaintop. It was also essential for the researchers to screen out any extraneous radio...
Electrically charged SSTs would actually provide a visual dividend. Ionization of the air in front of the planes would produce a corona discharge that would be seen as a bright blue glow in the dark. "When supersonic traffic gets heavy," says Cahn, "this could provide observers on the ground with a spectacular view at night...
...Japan's leading exponent of a new, totally modern yet distinctly native musical style. He scored R I N G, a plaintive, murmuring piece for flute, lute and guitar, not with notes but with a diagram of a circle containing directional signals for time, dynamics and pitch. In Corona for Strings, he achieved wispy as well as grating effects by directing the instrumentalists to improvise on the basis of colored plastic disks superimposed on their parts (yellow for soft, blue for loud...
...this year, 2,307 Japanese cars were sold, compared with 182 for all of 1966. As in Britain, Honda is making a big splash, and has already taken 7,000 orders for its mini-series for delivery next year. And in Belgium, Toyota's Corolla, Crown and Corona models trebled last year's sales of 1,000 in the first nine months...