Word: drum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer-programming services, a lamp manufacturer and TV plants in Germany and France. Last week, in one of many "substantial acquisitions" foreseen by ITT-Europe Executive Vice President James V. Lester, the company added to the fold West Germany's Teves, a major producer of automobile disk and drum brakes...
...Army drum and bugle corps blared an ear-splitting fanfare, the Navy Band came in on cue, and an Army detachment fired a 21-gun salute. Iran's Shahanshah (King of Kings), His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, was properly impressed by the pomp, but his visit to Washington last week was no pleasure trip. At the very first opportunity he and his old friend Lyndon Johnson got down to some blunt business...
...popped in front of drawings by Henry Moore, brought gales of youthful laughter as he told them the artist's name was either "Heinrich Moorehaus or Schweinhenkel Block-haus, or maybe Schweinehund Block-enkopf." He stared at the misplaced toes a girl had attached to a bongo drum-playing doll, asked: "Is that a three-toed tree toad?" He told others that he was working on "a boomerang that won't return," and has given "slipper-flippers" to adults...
Ohio Democrat Michael Kirwan, floor manager for the measure, declared that "every dollar in this bill represents an investment in America, and the benefits come back to us a hundredfold." Members who ordinarily bang the economy drum loudly, including Arizona Republican John Rhodes (whose state benefits from a Western power-development project that gets $21,600,000 this year) and Mississippi Democrat Jamie Whitten (who could claim $4,000,000 for his state), extolled Kirwan. "I have come to love him," said Whitten, "and to appreciate his great contributions to our nation...
Moving rapidly over a strip of paper on a slowly revolving drum, the stylus traced out distinctive patterns, or voiceprints, that were determined by the frequencies, loudness and duration of each of the phonemes. Finally, after a night in which he painstakingly compared the patterns produced by phonemes from the two tapes, Kersta concluded that they had all been uttered by the same person. He reported to the Telegraph that he was "100% sure" that the voice on the Israeli tape was that of President Nasser...