Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the civil war days of 1947, the Communist Party has been outlawed in Greece, but everyone acknowledges the E.D.A. party to be its chosen instrument. Not only did Papandreou make common cause with E.D.A., but so did others who also should know better. Among them: the mayor of Volos, Greece's fifth largest city, a millionaire freshly returned from a starry-eyed visit to the Soviet Union; Sophocles Venizelos, bridge-playing politician son of a statesman, and leader of a current neutralist campaign...
...cultured maid, or just move or stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose herself on a sofa to resemble the whole Laocoon group...
Guidance Problem. For advanced missiles, guidance is a more serious problem than propulsion. Two guiding systems are of obvious value for an ICBM, and both are being developed. One, under contracts with American Bosch Arma, AC Spark Plug and M.I.T., is "inertial guidance." Its heart is a subtle instrument that senses every force that acts on the flying missile, the enormous force of the rocket thrust and the delicate forces of crosswinds and yawing motions. This information goes to a computer (contracts with Burroughs and Sperry Rand) that figures out the missile's position, speed and direction...
...alternative system ("radio inertial") uses a similar instrument in the missile, but readings that show the missile's behavior are sent back to the launching site by radio waves. Then a computer on the ground tells the missile, also by radio, what to do. Each system has its advantages. Radio inertial guidance, for instance, keeps the computer on the ground, where it can be as big and heavy as necessary. Pure inertial guidance, on the other hand, is self-contained and unaffected by radio interference or enemy jamming...
...about two years ago, it was suddenly discovered by high-fidelity fans and came back with a roar. With high fidelity's new recording techniques, hazy diapasons became vivid, and when the hi-fi crowd learned that the organ could play both lower and higher than any other instrument, it became their all-out favorite. The boom began with sub-middlebrow theater-organ concoctions, e.g., a series of LPs by Organist Reginald Foort, on the Cook label, continued with a series by George Wright, put out by newly formed High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. On the serious side there...