Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet reporters who got a look at the Sunrise were heavy on its interior decoration and light on its technology. The ship is lined, they said, with "a snow-white, soft, spongelike synthetic fabric." The three seats are close together in a row. The single instrument panel has a clock, a globe showing the spaceship's position, a radio, a telegraph key and many switches and buttons...
Critics of the purges contend that the victors turned them into an instrument of revenge, paying off old scores and sweeping hundreds of innocent people into the same dustbin with the guilty. There is probably some truth to the charge. But whatever the excesses, it is clear that the house has been cleaned of a good many crooks and virtually all of the undermining leftists, and constitutional law is now restored...
...need ever rose, Haystack could track an object no bigger than a needle orbiting the earth 500 miles out in space. "Haystack has the same capacity for angular resolution as the human eye," says Project Engineer Herbert G. Weiss, 46. "For its size, it is the most precise movable instrument ever built...
Modern Wealth. But the cello did not really establish itself as a solo instrument until Pablo Casals developed its rich potentialities in the early years of this century. As a result, there is a dearth of music written for the cello by the great classical and romantic composers. Starker, a professor of music at Indiana University since 1958, takes heart from the wealth of cello compositions being turned out by modern composers. But he admits that the instrument's sober reputation might hamper its achieving the popularity of its high-strung relative, the violin...
...Neshoba countians, including two Philadelphia city cops, were arraigned on two counts of depriving local Negroes of their rights by "arresting, incarcerating and detaining" them. In one case, Rainey, Price & Co. were accused of "striking, beating and whipping" a Negro, in another of clubbing a Negro with a blunt instrument. The maximum penalty on each count is one year in prison and a $1,000 fine...