Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sept Répons. Having transferred keyboard notes to the foot pedals, he freed an arm for conducting, and with only one slip (a missed orchestral entry), he played with brilliant drive. The massive, 5,000-pipe organ overwhelmed the string orchestra, but Schippers coaxed out of the instrument all the music's high glories...
Perkins not only opposed the idea of instituting credit courses in the Houses, but also questioned the value of Lowell House's non-credit seminars. "The House is complementary to the curriculum, but it is not supposed to be used as an instrument of instruction," he explained...
...discovered how effective the Morgenthau concept of using aid as a political instrument can be. After South Korea's military head man, General Park Chung Hee. threatened to go back on his promise to permit elections in the fall, the U.S. warned that it might reduce military and economic aid to Korea. Last week General Park said that he would hold elections after all. Similarly, the U.S. recently used Brazil's need for continued aid installments to prod the government into moving to curb inflation...
...Audilog-Recordimeter family has a more challenging role to play. Planted in some 12,000 homes, the Recordimeter, a small, clocklike instrument, tots up the number of hours the radio or television set is operating. But it cannot tell what channel or station the set is tuned to. Every half hour, if the set is on, the Recordimeter briskly rouses the absorbed or snoring viewer by flashing a white light behind the picture tube. Radio listeners are alerted by a buzzer. At this signal, the viewer is supposed to pick up his Audilog, a soft-backed book with a page...
There is another side to the program. To keep from being completely inundated with surplus farm products, the Government, in sheer self-defense, imposes production controls. The principal instrument is the acreage quota: the farmer is assigned a certain number of acres of a given price-supported crop; his quota depends upon how many acres of that crop he has grown in the past. Despite such controls, the surpluses keep piling...