Word: lomas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a man is George T. Simon, 55, executive director of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. At Harvard in the early 1930s, Simon was so excited by the Casa Loma Orchestra's flashy beat that he used it as the style for his own college band; later he became a drummer for Glenn Miller, a writer and editor for the old Metronome magazine, and a producer for records, radio and TV. Now, drawing heavily on his Metronome files, he has packed all he knows about the peak of swing (1935-46) into an encyclopedic volume...
...Films Research, Inc. elected new officers last week. They are: V. Alexander Mead '65, of Claverly Hall and Ridgewood, N.J., president; David Benson '64, of Adams House and Duxbury, vice-president; Sandra B. Prutting '65, of Eliot Hall and Alta Loma, Calif., secretary; and Matthew W. Stolper '65, of Quincy House and Ann Arbor, Mich., treasurer...
...bend) around obstructions, the IBM engineers calculated that they could twist their transmissions right over the top of mountains and other obstructions with out building repeater stations on top. They set up a weak, 15-watt transmitter 45 miles south of San Jose, Calif., on the other side of Loma Prieta, a 3,798-ft. peak in the Santa Cruz mountains. Then they pointed their transmitter's beam of 1,855-megacycle waves in the general direction of San Jose. When the beam was aimed too high, its waves shot off into space; when the beam...
...salt and brackish water into fresh water. To rind the best methods the U.S. is building five demonstration plants across the nation, each using a different system of making fresh water. The first plant at Freeport will be followed by a plant designed by the Fluor Corp. at Point Loma in San Diego. It will produce 1,000,000 gallons a day, using atomic energy as the heat source for distillation. Its goal: water at a cost of 42? per 1,000 gallons...