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Then Glomar Explorer, her beam too wide for the Panama Canal, sailed round the Horn and made for Los Angeles, where she rendezvoused with her companion, HMB-1. Fittingly, Glomar Explorer docked at Long Beach's Pier E, which is located only about 50 yds. from the hangar that for years has housed Hughes' gigantic plywood flying boat, known irreverently as "the Spruce Goose." Though Howard Hughes last month finally agreed to dispose of the Goose, giving parts of it to the Smithsonian, it remains at present in the hangar, a monument to his single-minded determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Great Submarine Snatch | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...conventional instruments, P.D.Q. experimented widely with unusual sound. Few of his innovations made it into the mainstream of Western music, and few who heard the Serenoodle last weekend--with members of the Band's expanded percussion section playing police whistle, duck call popgun cowbell and highly anachronistic electric car horn--will wonder...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A Musical Joke | 3/25/1975 | See Source »

...hair began to grey and his patience with students to thin, but most of the time there were few signs of stress. He made for himself a host of enemies, not the least of whom was the Crimson, which for years ran a picture of him holding a bull-horn and standing outside University Hall. Many students were more direct in their attacks. I remember vivid, scary accounts of harrassments and building occupation...

Author: By John E. May, | Title: Faculty Children: | 3/25/1975 | See Source »

...standing in a Los Angeles office building. His hands are shaking. "This is the last one," he croaks. "I'm so nervous I can't stand it." His accomplice, trimly dressed and wearing horn-rimmed glasses, is chewing his lower lip. "You'd think it would get easier with each delivery," he mutters. "But it doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Pieman Cometh | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...Boston Symphony Chamber Players will be here with the Brahms Horn Trio and other works, and also on Sunday, F. John Adams will lead an open sight-reading of Brahms' German Requiem...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: MUSIC | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

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