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Strange to Your Ears (with Jim Fassett; Columbia). Fun and games with a tape recorder (on LP), showing how musical tones and the sounds made by dogs, birds and babies change when drastically sped up or slowed down. The effect is startling and instructive, e.g., a piano played in reverse sounds like a reed organ with hiccups, a canary's trill slowed eight times sounds like a baying hound...
M.I.T. placed a strict ban on "unauthorized off-campus demonstrations by students" over the week-end, and, simultaneously, a charge of disturbing the peace against dean Frederick G. Fassett, Jr., was dismissed in District Court...
...Dean Fassett had asked the court to continue the case until Tuesday, May 13, and the M.I.T. contingent was about to leave the courtroom when the patrolmen registered their complaints against him. Fassett requested a continuation in order to give Tech authorities time to investigate the affair...
Last night, M.I.T. President James R. Killian defended the Dean. He said that he has known the 50-year-old Fassett since he joined the college 20 years ago and that he is "a man of impeccable character and a highly respected college and student advisor...
...Fassett did not leave the campus last night and while on the campus did every thing to dissuade the students from leaving," Killian said. "The only explanation of the charge against Fassett is a mistake in identity...