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...live, the people who live around me, the world." Every Ellington piece is a musical snapshot from his experience. Mood Indigo is a little boy kept indoors by the rain, thinking of a little girl to whom he tipped his cap the day before; Shepherd Watching over the Night Flock, one of his newest pieces, is a preacher friend who canvasses Manhattan bistros each night, ministering to musicians and barflies...
...what makes the perfect setting to view an instant film biography? Right now in Chicago, it is the animal furniture-sculpture of French Designer Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Delighting the throngs at the Art Institute are his furnishings, including a flock of 22 woolly-coated, roller-footed sheep that serve as seats, sofas or hassocks; a monumental housefly three feet long that sports a rosewood toilet seat; and a life-size brass rhinoceros weighing 735 Ibs. whose side swings down to make a desk...
...exposures. As a result, the bird echoes-which normally appear as indistinct dots on the radar screen-formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer Malcolm Kuhring, who is chairman of the committee. "The birds fly with tail winds; they fly the pressure patterns...
During the 1965 spring-and fall-migration periods, the R.C.A.F. forecaster at Cold Lake added bird forecasts to his regular weather bulletins, predicting the bird movements around the clock and rating their intensity numerically from zero (for clear air) to eight (for a dense flock). The forecasts proved to be 83% accurate during the spring tests, about 70% in the fall-percentages that would make any conventional weatherman justifiably proud. They so impressed the local R.C.A.F. flight commander that he agreed to call off night training flights if the bird intensity reached a rating...
Other converts to the windows: Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Maharani of Baroda and Libya's King Idris I. Only trouble is that the purdah glass, in a way, is self-defeating. It is so noticeable that the instantly curious flock around to try penetrating its secrets, let an ordinary clear-windowed car go by without a second glance...