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Bread & the Wafer. Varèse began experimenting with sounds of the machine age-coaxing unconventional sonorities out of conventional instruments-long before such European electro-composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen had spliced their first tape. But partly because his output is so sparse (eleven compositions in 40 years), partly because his European counterparts had electronic equipment to work with before he did, Varèse for a long time remained, by his own definition, "a musical bum." Large-scale recognition did not come until 1958, when his Poème Electronique, his only completely noninstrumental composition, thundered...
...knows from experience that research pays off at a prodigious rate. "That means that $100 spent on research will bring back anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 over a 25-year period. Keep the research going and those other fellows will copy." In General Telephone & Electronics' future: electro-luminescent wall panels, a single telephone-radio-TV communications system for the home, machines that translate foreign languages...
During his final year here, Hynek will work to assure continuation of the Satellite Tracking Program and try to complete the initial phases of both the "Balloon" and "Cat-Eye" projects for his successor. The Balloon project deals with electro-optical technique for stellar photography, the Cat-Eye with manned and unmanned space flights...
...president. Skinner has been vice president of G.M.'s accessory group since 1951. Also promoted to executive vice president was Cyrus R. Osborn, 62, vice president of the engine group since 1950. In his new post, Osborn will boss G.M.'s engine divisions, the household appliance and electro-motive groups, and the overseas and Canadian units...
...From Electro to Circe...