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Other "worst pictures of the year" included "By Love Possessed," "The Devil at 4 O'Clock" and "Flower Drum Song...
...such a small group--clarinet, cello, percussion, piano--the repertoire is surprisingly large. The combination of clarinet (Richard Dufallo) and vibraphones (Charles Delancey) suggests a small organ in a big church. I've never heard anything like low clarinet tones played flutter-tongue against the head of a kettle drum...
...more eyes (electrical light sensors ) than any spider. When it went into orbit, some of the eyes searched for the sun. and nitrogen discharged from a bottle in the drum moved the drum's axis until it was perpendicular to the sun's direction. Next, a motor on the central shaft started turning the sail so that its solar cells pointed steadily...
...gets gyroscopic stability from the spinning drum, while the solar cells on the pointing sail are always in the right position to develop maximum power...
Send on Signal. Other instruments mounted on the drum record radiation from both sun and sky as the drum spins, and a neutron counter catches neutrons bounced up from the earth's atmosphere by the impact of cosmic rays. All the readings are recorded on tape during each orbit. When OSO passes over a Minitrack radio station, it is given a signal that makes the tape reverse its motion and quickly send its data down to earth...