Word: instrument
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Eastman Kodak Co. has a Swiss man ager in Italy, a Dutchman in Portugal and a Cuban in Venezuela. SGS-Fair-child, European subsidiary of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., advertises its management staff as "an SGS-Fair-child cocktail: one part Italian, four parts British, one part French, one part Swedish, one part German, served with an American olive...
...Trillion Cubic Feet. Although preliminary instrument checks at the site indicate that th| subterranean chimney is already filial with gas, several months will pass before scientists can determine how successful Operation
Sometime before the end of January, President Johnson will decide the fate of this year's 550,000 male college graduates and first-year graduate students. The instrument of his decision will be the draft, and the problems it faces him with are complex. He will have to decide which graduate students to defer whether to induct the oldest or the youngest first, and how to select the 300,000 draftees from an eligible pool of more than one million. Neither official nor unofficial Washington knows what the President will decide, but there are already some clear indications of what...
...before curtain time, men and women in blue jeans and work shirts began walking slowly, slowly onto the curtainless stage of Paris' Theatre National Populaire. There they stood or sat, meditatively waiting. At 8:30, Indian Musician Nageswara Rao appeared, carrying his vina - a long, gourd-based stringed instrument, much like the sitar popularized by Ravi Shankar and Beatle George Harrison. For a quarter of an hour, the vina mewed and whinnied while no one moved. Then things began to come to life...
...Stanford is no more pedantic than he has to be in discussing media, periods and styles. Perhaps unnecessarily he points out that "the common lead pencil is misnamed, for it is made of graphite, a crystalline form of carbon having a greasy texture." It is also a slippery instrument in the hands of those who take drawing as lightly as it is taken today. Drawing has had its great days-the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries -but it is impossible to doubt that the pop art of, say, Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923) represents anything but a descent from...