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...develop the picture, an electric current is shot through the film for one hundredth of a second. This jolt of juice generates just enough heat to soften the plastic. The electric charges are able to squeeze closer together, dimpling the softened material, which instantly cools and solidifies. The result is a pattern of varying thickness that matches the pattern of light and darkness that made up the original image on the film...
...accounts. They have also taken to smothering their corporate clients with helpful services, from figuring their payrolls to giving advice on foreign investments. But nothing wins over the flinty-eyed treasurer like a better interest rate. "It's fantastic what some of them will do for a one-hundredth of one percent pickup in interest," says a Los Angeles banker. Adds President Emmett Solomon of San Francisco's Crocker-Anglo Bank: "The corporate treasurer is in the driver's seat...
...give many shocks, and even then have failed to get the heart going again. Far better, reports Harvard's Dr. Armand A. Lefemine, is a direct-current defibrillator. The DC shock may run as high as 7,000 volts, but the current is applied for only one four-hundredth of a second...
...England premiere, Stravinsky's Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa received a bludgeoning the Bach Society had not intended to give it; someone in the orchestra arrived after the concert had begun. Naturally the counterpoint had strange empty spots. Monumentum, composed in 1960 on Gesualdo's four-hundredth birthday, is essentially an alteration for chamber music of three of Gesualdo's madrigals. Even if one makes allowances for what was missing on Friday, Stravinsky's version sounded sadly disjointed in comparison with the original vocal settings if the madrigals. Stravinsky achieves coloring effects-alternating strings and horns in block chords...
...some 100 candidates for presidential appointment. At the Point, he was a good leader-manager of varsity lacrosse, superintendent of the post Sunday school, captain of his regiment and class president. He did well in history, a fact that counted later. An avid dancer, he hoofed in the annual Hundredth Night Show, loved to go out shagging with Peg at nearby Vassar...