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...cannon was fired from the stage; the orchestra played over and over a specially commissioned composition full of loud noises and sudden silences-Daniel Pinkham's Catacoustical Measures-to test echoes and reverberation periods. To simulate the presence of a live audience, seats were filled with pointy-headed fiber glass dummies eerily resembling hooded KKKlans-men, while such fine musical ears as Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski and Erich Leinsdorf prowled the corridors, listening critically as technicians shifted the position of acoustical panels suspended from the ceiling to correct defects. Final verdict: O.K. for sound...
...design feature previously used only on supersonic jet fighters. Inside, reflecting Egbert's love of flying, the Avanti resembles a plush airplane with instruments set in neat, easy-to-reach groups, has two bucket seats in front, and a bucket bench for two in the rear. With a fiber-glass body mounted on a steel chassis and an engine of 300 h.p. or more, the Avanti will go from standing to 60 m.p.h. in a scant 6.7 sec.-a performance rivaling that of the hottest European sports cars. It is expected to sell for about...
...sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio in Pagliacci and the old man Eleazar of Halevy's La Juive, which has not been given at the Met since Martinelli sang it in 1936. Explains Tucker: "Pagliacci tears every fiber of your body. I'm still growing. When I'm 50, I'll be ready. The pinnacle of my career will be Eleazar, but it's got to be done right. Too many people have been waiting for me as Eleazar...
...Britain's biggest textile manufacturer, to offer corporate thanks for their "deliverance from anxiety." The cause of their rejoicing: the failure of giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. in its $596 million bid to swallow up Courtaulds and thereby achieve a near-monopoly of Britain's synthetic fiber industry. In the biggest takeover fight in the history of British business, I.C.I, had managed to acquire only 38.5% of Courtaulds' outstanding common shares-enough to make it Courtaulds' biggest single stockholder, but not enough to give it control...
...City of London had by no means written Chambers off. Unpopular as they were, his tough tactics had won I.C.I, so big a stake in Courtaulds that many Britons believed that Courtaulds' management will ultimately feel obliged to agree to closer ties with I.C.I, in artificial-fiber production...