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...recording underwater noises and observing the behavior that accompanied each sound, he quickly learned parts of the damselfish language and began using it to control his subjects. By playing a recorded chirping sound, for example, he caused the damselfish to twist 45 degrees and then make a U-shaped dip, a pattern it often follows during spawning. Another recorded call actually caused color changes on the body of the fish...
Into Bankruptcy. So large are the deficits that orchestras have been forced to dip into endowments to survive. In the past five years, the Chicago Symphony has had to dip into its endowment so regularly that it has shrunk from $6,200,000 to $1,000,000. In Cleveland, the orchestra is about to tap its endowment fund for $600,000 to help meet a 1968-69 deficit of $1,100,000. If the same thing happens next year, says Orchestra President Alfred M. Rankin, the endowment fund will be wiped out, and the orchestra built by George Szell over...
...currency markets. Present arrangements call for each Western government to keep the official price of its money within 1% of its stated value. In an effort to hold the line, Denmark and Norway suspended all dealings in foreign money. France, Britain, Italy, Belgium and other countries were forced to dip into their reserves and sell dollars to maintain the official price of their own currencies. Despite all this, in stunning defiance of the world's financial experts, West Germany's political leaders at week's end ruled out any upward revaluation of the mark from its present...
Shana is not quite sure what McCall's needs. After a succession of male editors and a dip in advertising pages, McCall's management was apparently in agreement when she told them: "I thought the trouble with women's magazines is that they have been underestimating women all these years, and I wasn't even sure that I believed in the idea of a women's magazine. I said I thought there should just be good magazines, period. Maybe I'm kind of a latter-day feminist, but I think that women can take...
...above all, articles. In the contemporary American idiom, at least, the whole punch of what you say depends on the order you put your little clauses and stuff in. After messing around with arranging sentences for a long time, you reach a kind of ecstasy when you finally dip into and out of a sentence as smooth as a yoyo. Sometime after The Sirens of Titan Vonnegut found out how it goes...