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...stage in U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Conductor Zubin Mehta got ready to play. Unlike most concertgoers, the audience fastened its attention not on the musicians but on Syn-Ket, a strange instrument set on a table in mid-stage...
When Composer-Pianist John Eaton, 33, began to play his Concert Piece for Syn-Ket and Symphony Orchestra, the audience quickly discovered that there was nothing childish about the instrument. Syn-Ket is the first machine capable of performing electronic music "live" in the concert hall. Like the various sound synthesizers that have preceded it, Syn-Ket can approximate known instrumental and noninstrumental sounds-and create a few that are not so well known. It does not have all the range and flexibility of those synthesizers, but it does have one advantage. They normally put their sounds onto tape, which...
...Iran's own enormous oilfields refuses to bow to his demands to double production (now a record 130 million tons a year) in the next five years to finance his national-development program. The Shah is not at all impressed by consortium claims that the world oil mar ket is already glutted. Last month, when several of the consortium's member companies started drilling for offshore Saudi Arabian oil in the Persian Gulf, the Shah was so incensed that he dis patched patrol boats to stop the drilling and arrest the oilmen...
With Johnson's withdrawal, the bot tom dropped out of the prediction mar ket. Mary McGrory had pointed out that the pundits were wrong about Romney, wrong about McCarthy, wrong about Bobby, wrong about Rocky. "Everything is unintelligible," she wrote, "unless one takes the position that pub lic men of both parties are meeting in cellars and plotting new ways to make idiots of reporters, particularly those who earn their bread predicting what public figures are going...
...Foresta Hotel on a cliff overlooking Stockholm harbor. At a meeting of Common Market ministers in Brussels, France dropped a monkey wrench into the agenda by calling for a complete overhaul of today's monetary system and a return to the gold standard. The other five Common Mar ket countries rejected the idea on the ground that it was no time to debate the design of a new system when the old one verged on collapse. This was a sharp rebuff for the French, who have hoarded gold and warred against the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency...