Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...value, and even necessity, of the arts is accepted as axiomatic, and serves as a clear example of the way in which Putney uses the community as an instrument of persuasion and education. Jazz was for a long while virtually non-existent, not because of any ban, but because the prevailing school opinion looked down upon it as a lower art form, if an art at all. But despite any opposition, there is hardly a single alumnus for whom classical music is not an important part of life. Music has been important principally because of the school's dynamic musical...
...laid on the line once again a scandalously serious problem of the U.S.'s crowded air space. In clear weather, military planes fly indiscriminately on and through civil airways under Visual Flight Rules. In areas of heavy traffic, civilian airliners, even in clear weather, more often fly under Instrument Flight Rules-continually tracked and controlled by Civil Aeronautics Administration ground stations. In the final analysis, the lack of military-civilian coordination was responsible for the Maryland crash just as it was responsible for the ramming of a United Air Lines DC-7 by an Air Force F-100F...
...newest crash threw official Washington into a fresh swivet of air-safety hearings and investigations. Out of it all, two days later, came an unprecedented stopgap presidential proclamation that 1) required military jet aircraft to fly by Instrument Flight Rules while in the civil airways below 25,000 ft.-later reduced to 20,000 ft., 2) prohibited jet penetration swoops from high to low altitudes through civil airways. Exception: emerency jet-bomber and fighter "scrambles," which would be continued whenever necessary for the national defense. Said the President's special assistant for aviation affairs, retired Air Force General Elwood...
...home, across Poland and Germany, the roads were good and the food was fine. Italian Prince Scipione Borghese, captain of the Itala crew, led a triumphant parade into Paris to complete what he called "the amplest, the completest, the most persuasive testing to which this new instrument has ever been subjected." The trip had taken just two months...
Studies of airmen and other volunteers in such settings have shown, says the School of Aviation Medicine's Psychologist George Hauty, that a man studying a dimly lit instrument panel or radar scope in darkness and total silence soon begins to see blips where there are none. Airmen reported: "The instrument panel kept melting and dripping to the floor." and "On several occasions the bank indicator showed a hippopotamus smiling...