Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...19th century Britain, the law enforcement system seems almost to have been designed not to work. To some extent, it was. Sir Robert Peel, who in 1829 organized the first modern force (and gave the bobbies his name), admitted to grave misgivings that it might be used as an instrument of tyranny. Unlike a soldier or civil servant, the British policeman is not a "servant of the Crown" but has the ambiguous legal status of a uniformed civilian who is merely paid to do what every citizen should...
...perfect match for musicmaking-Mann the easy, natural leader, Hillyer the intense, nervous brooder. Second Violinist Isidore Cohen, 40, who joined in 1958, seldom speaks except when spoken to-a towering virtue in a second violinist -and Cellist Claus Adam, 45, is also an ideal man for his instrument-a calm, stable, reassuring anchorman...
...stand looks like a portable museum of musical instru ments. Dangling from his neck is a manzello, a quasi saxophone that forgot to grow up, and a stritch, which resembles a dented blunderbuss and hangs well below his knees. The third instrument is more familiar; it is a tenor sax, and stuffed into its bell is a flute. The musician rocks back and forth on his feet as if uncertain how to begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like...
...idle fears, but U.S. nuclear authorities have not been idle about them either. For five years the Atomic Energy Commission has anxiously been pushing a project code-named Vela-Hotel, designed to detect nuclear explosions in space. Last week the Hotelmen delivered their first package of special instruments. Before the end of 1963, similar instrument packages are scheduled to take the long rocket-ride into space on Air Force-launched satellites...
Delayed Debris. Easiest to detect-provided the proper instruments are orbiting in space-are the soft X rays; they are by far the largest product of the explosion. The Vela-Hotel instrument package is expected to detect soft X rays from a one megaton explosion 200 million miles away from the earth and distinguish them from X rays from solar flares and other natural sources. Some instruments are also sensitive to gamma rays and neutrons...