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Fantastic Percussion (Felix Slatkin conducting; Liberty). Classical Conductor Slatkin enlists in the stereo wars, blending 35 kinds of percussion instruments from all over the world to lend new, cool and yet exotic color to standard tunes like Blues in the Night. One of the more civilized and sophisticated stereo demonstrations, with feathery Balinese bells leaping from speaker to speaker and mingling in midair...
...with tougher skins to prevent damage from the machine and that ripen all at the same time. ¶"Cookies" for cows. International Harvester's hay pelletizer makes wafers from hay as it is mowed in the field. The wafers cut a farmer's loading and storage costs, lend themselves easily to automatic feeding in barns...
...give the neat, well-mannered prose an occasional touch of irony. But young debutantes who sugar their very small talk with references to Louis XI (not XIII or XIV), and butler who tell dinner guests when their hostes wants them to switch conversational part ners, all lend a persistent air of unreality almost as if the author were intent 01 parody...
...lifeline, the Burma Road; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Finding the Burma Road a twisting 726 miles of confusion, corruption and peril, Arnstein banged heads together, introduced a truck maintenance system ("The Chinese had never heard of grease") and centralized control, within a few months quadrupled the flow of lend-lease traffic...
...biggest effects of the FRB's actions are not likely to be felt for some time. Bankers hope that the 5% prime rate of U.S. banks-the interest charged the biggest borrowers with the best credit-will not drop too soon. "Any bank in Dallas probably could lend twice as much money as it has available to lend," said a Dallas bank officer, "and the Fed's action won't change this situation." Most big-city banks have some 60% or more of their deposits out in loans, close to the highest deposit-loan ratio in history...