Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressed the instrument to the center of my forehead and rotated the handle . . . There was no particular pain as it penetrated the skin and flesh, but there was a little jolt as the end hit the bone . . . Suddenly there was a little 'scrunch' and the instrument penetrated the bone . . . there was a blinding flash . . . The Lama Mingyar Dondup turned to me and said: 'You are now one of us, Lobsang. For the rest of your life you will see people as they are and not as they pretend to be.' It was a very strange experience...
...system containing high-speed electronic computers and highspeed, accurate communications, is quite inhibiting. Every means possible should be employed to eliminate humans in the data-processing chain." But Engineer Seaton feels that humans, however fallible, still have their uses. "The human brain," he concedes, "is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." He favors "reserving to humans the unusual problems of judgment, moral and philosophical balances...
...scheduled airlines. Yet, as more and more planes go aloft in all weather, it may get to the point where the nation's airspace must be sectored off like superhighways, one lane for private flyers, another for airlines, and everything run under strict instrument rules...
...even at the Paris Conservatory, where he is professor of saxophone, most of his students graduate into jazz or military music. "I have one mission in life," he says. "That is to make people take the saxophone seriously. It's time they discovered the nobility of this spoiled instrument...
...rose big, suave Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona, president of Gulf's subsidiary, Gulf Italia, and tidied up the facts. "Although constantly being attacked," he said, "private enterprise is the most powerful instrument for social and economic development wherever it is given a competitive chance." Since first striking Sicilian oil in 1954 at Ragusa (where ENI had tried and failed), he pointed out that Gulf has drilled 34 holes, and that 31 of them are now producing 22,000 bbl. a day-only half of eventual capacity. In contrast, ENI's subsidiary, AGIP Mineraria, has moved into Gela...