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Other companies, such as Wurlitzer Co. and Chicago Musical Instrument Co., have diversified into a variety of musical instruments, but Aeolian has stuck to its specialty and produced some 700 kinds of pianos, more than any other company. For all its wide range, there is no compromise with tradition. As one Aeolian executive describes piano-making: "Anything different from what Grandpa built is suspect...
...School of Public Health, Dr. Bernard Lown, Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and developer of the Cardioverter--an electronic instrument which corrects abnormal heart rhythms--has been promoted to Associate Professor of Cardiology in Public Health...
...Minneapolis Symphony. It makes him sound more like a university professor than a violinist - and there's the point. Borrowing a bit of academic fund-raising technique, the orchestra announced that it will establish 19 permanently endowed chairs, one for the principal player of each major instrument. Saslav's will be endowed by retired Minneapolis Lumber Executive Leonard G. Carpenter in honor of his late father, a founder of the orchestra. Minimum price tag for the plan, the first such for any U.S. orchestra: $500,000 for the concertmaster's chair, $250,000 for the others...
...accidents of nature and wealth, many of the most interesting stellar objects are inaccessible to the earth's most powerful optical telescopes. The objects are visible only from the Southern Hemisphere; the biggest telescopes, such as the massive 200-inch instrument atop California's Mount Palomar, are located in the Northern Hemisphere...
...European Southern Observatory agency and a joint British-Australian group, which have started building three 146-to 150-inch telescopes in southern latitudes this year. A U.S. telescope costing about $10 million will rise at Cerro Tololo in the Chilean Andes, 300 miles north of Santiago. A European instrument will be placed on nearby La Silla Mountain. In Australia, a $12.3 million instrument is slated for Siding Spring Mountain, 200 miles from Sydney...