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...political balance, and Georgia delegates aim to keep open minds. Or so insists Lawyer Irving Kaler, a Jewish liberal delegate who rebuilt the party's Atlanta machinery. "The convention atmosphere itself encourages you to consider very carefully," says Kaler, "You don't operate in a vacuum. Every instrument of public opinion is focused on you. If you wear a delegate badge, five people stop you before you can get across the hotel lobby, and every one of them asks, 'What are you gonna do?' In the whole convention process now, more and more influences are reaching...
...fourth disk of the album over to a delightful discussion of chamber music by Peter Ustinov. "A Walter Mitty as far as music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that in the composer's day chamber-music playing was as offhand as it is reverential today, Ustinov says: "Mozart provided the Muzak for the period. The Archbishop of Salzburg and other such philistines went on talking through the first performance of Eine...
...pyrotechnics the Who's songs are emphatically not crude jingles. Their music is intelligent and comes over best on a good stereo set. Nevertheless their show in person is equally a must. If for no other reason then for the instrument smashing...
...when the late Chuck Willis rendered his emasculated version of the famous blues, but Ma Rainey sang it as Easy [not C.C.] Rider Blues much earlier. Old blues singers applied the term easy rider to the guitar, which, because of its shoulder strap, "rode easy." Eventually, because of the instrument's feminine shape, easy rider came to mean a woman of easy virtue or a man who prospered by her entrepreneurial activities. There is more to culture, Mr. Dove, than that which revolves 45 times per minute...
...infra-red laser beams. Peeling Potatoes. The various laser wave lengths, about 1,000 times shorter than those of the microwaves used in conventional radar, make laser altimeters, range finders and aerial mappers remarkably accurate. In a demonstration of a laser distance-measuring device, Spectra-Physics, Inc. flew the instrument over a Philadelphia high school stadium at an altitude of 1,000 ft. A conventional radar altimeter would have indicated only the slope of the stadium; the laser picked out each row of seats, the one-foot space between each row, and even the slight depression of the running track...