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...streets are choked with gaudily painted, bell-tingling pedicabs, with tiny, pony-drawn gharries, with stray livestock and rickety prewar Fords and Chevrolets, all cowed by the horn-blasting Packards, Cadillacs and Mercedes of government officials, black marketeers, Chinese and European traders. The near chaos of Djakarta's streets is symptomatic of the near chaos-economic, political and social-of the whole republic...
...edited by Sir George Grove (1820-1900), London civil engineer, biblical scholar and Zin Arthur music commentator, who was secretary of the Crystal Palace and first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo was a small shawm...
...Shabbes." In Jerusalem each Friday afternoon, as the sun dips behind the old, whitish buildings and the Sabbath begins with the sound of a horn, black-coated men with beards and side curls scurry through the orthodox Jewish district known as Mea Shearim (Hundred Gates) to roll heavy stones across the entrances to the quarter. Thus they make sure that for the next 24 hours-until the first three stars are visible on Saturday night-there will be no profanation of their self-imposed "ghetto" by "heathen" Jews who do not observe the Sabbath. No one smokes or turns...
Hearing Glasses. For clients who are vainer about their hearing than their eyesight, Otarion, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has designed a hearing aid housed in standard, horn-rimmed glasses. The amplifier fits behind the ear and since no cord or attachment is needed, the glasses can be put on and off like an ordinary pair. Price...
Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs became Radcliffe's second president in 1903, and Ada Comstock Notestein succeeded him in 1923. The college was growing, but Harvard scarcely noted that it was populated by anything more than a race of flat-chested creatures in horn-rimmed spectacles. By the time that Historian Wilbur Jordan took over in 1943, the old jokes were still alive ("Is that a Radcliffe girl, or did a horse step on her face...