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...Personnel Records Unit that catalogues each cop's skills, hobbies and qualifications on an IBM card, can in minutes mechanically thumb 24,000 cards and flick out names of policemen who understand Tagalog or Tonkinese or deaf-mute sign language, who are tall enough (6 ft. 3 in.) to form an honor guard for England's visiting Queen Elizabeth II, who know bees well enough (twelve do) to handle the swarm that appeared suddenly last month in Brooklyn...
...there is any secret to the perfection of his pivot play, it lies in his powerful forearms and wrists. He merely snaps the ball toward first with a quick flick. At the plate, too, his wrists do most of the work. Now that he has smoothed the hitch out of his snappy little swing, his average has been steadily rising. In 1956, his first year with the Pirates, he hit .243. Last summer he worked up to .293. So far this season he is batting...
...contestant put it, he "demolished your authority entirely, right in front of the orchestra." Most frequently. Steinberg jumped on the contestants for exaggerated gestures. When he spotted a shoulder-to-waist stroke, he would inquire acidly: "Are you a windmill?" Contestants soon learned that a 3-in. flick of the baton before the sensitive Liverpool Philharmonic could do the work of a 2-ft. stroke with less finely tuned orchestras...
However, if you happen to be out to fill your weekly culture quota or pick up some ideas for your Hum 4 exam, this is definitely not the flick...
...audience "orchestrate" with him-buzz to simulate loud strings, sing "tick, tick, tick" for a woodwind sound and "takata" for the brasses. "Oo," he commented, "seemed to me sort of bluish. When we sang 'takata' it seemed like a fiery orange." With a flick of the wrist in midsentence, he would bring in the 107-man New York Philharmonic to illustrate his points, rapidly skipping from Mozart to Stravinsky to Hindemith. The finale: a rousing performance of Ravel's Bolero, part of which he compared to "very high class hootchy-kootchy music...