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...Burbank, Calif., Sound Engineer Bill Cole looked a little like an octopus playing the organ. As Singer Andy Williams eased into the opening bars of an up-tempo number, Cole scanned a bewildering battery of gauges and began twiddling and tweaking some of the console's 250 multicolored knobs and switches that are linked to a forest of microphones in the studio. One knob channeled Williams' voice through an echo chamber; others-muffled or brightened various sections of the orchestra. The drums alone were surrounded by four microphones through which Cole, by deftly manipulating tone and volume controls...
...door to Writer John Koffend's office was closed. Researcher Nancy Atkinson, a sheaf of material for this week's Essay in hand, knocked and then tentatively turned the knob. Koffend was lying on the floor - but there was no reason for alarm. "Pardon me," he said, "I was just doing my push...
...title of a song often sends him into his rap: "Yeeaaaaaah," he sighs at the end of one cut, twirling the reverb knob, "which was Manny Nichols. 'Throw me a little Boogie.' Just keep dancing. That was like the secret to a very peaceful life--dance!--not many people are dancing anymore... Oh yes, you'll say that people are: 'Look at this place, look at that place, look at all the people who are dancing.' But in comparison to the amount of people there are, forget it (reverb), not many people are dancing (electronic noises in background) and people...
...active core of 3,000 workers in ten branch offices throughout the city. Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King traveled to Cleveland to campaign for him. All told, Stokes's volunteers distributed 60,000 bumper stickers (to Locher's 14,000), passed out another 60,000 door knob notices...
Storing Shockers. Darmstadt's latest currents are electronic, with fiercely earnest Electronic Composer Stockhausen (TIME, Feb. 10) as chief knob spinner...