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...operation a language laboratory is held in a partitioned classroom; Magneticons (magnetic disk machines) are installed in the laboratory at the back. During any hour period half the class meets with the teacher in the front of the room, while the other half works in the laboratory under the supervision of the native speaker. Halfway through the hour the two halves of the class switch around...
...device a disk is placed where an image of the sun and its corona is focused by a lens. This disk acts like the moon during a natural eclipse of the sun by blocking out or eclipsing the bright solar disk...
...skimmed over the most important decade of Louis Prima's career, namely, the '40s. While disk-jockeying in wartime London and postwar Munich, I was swamped with letters from G.I.s and civilians with jaded musical appetites who asked for repeat after repeat of ''garlicky-dialogued" Robin Hood, Angelina, and the big hit of all, I'll Walk Alone...
...slowly decreasing speed as it climbed through the earth's gravitational field. Then they watched it speed up about 50% as the moon's modest gravity took control. Mathematical analysis showed that Lunik II followed the proper curve to crash near the center of the lunar disk...
Byrd still loves jazz. "I just get more satisfaction out of the classics," he says. As his fans can attest, he plays both equally well. Says the Voice of America's Jazz Disk Jockey Willis Conover, who beams Byrd's wide-ranging guitar to 80-odd countries: "Charlie Byrd's versatility in the literature of the guitar surpasses that of anyone else. He is a masterful jack of all guitar trades...