Word: mixer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crayoned sign on the door of Georgetown University's glass-and-concrete Hall of Nations in Washington announced a coming event: SOCIAL MIXER- BEER, PEOPLE, DANCING. But what went on inside the hall one night last week was hardly a mixer. It was the televised debate between Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy and critics of the Administration's firm Viet Nam policies, originally scheduled for May but postponed when the President ordered Bundy to the Dominican Republic...
Stokowski is making his debut in Phase4 Stereo, a recording technique involving, among other abracadabra, 20 mikes and a 20-channel mixer. The effects are sensuous, sonically exhilarating and unnatural. The listener feels as if he were floating almost as close to the solo violin as the bow itself, while Phase 5, the last stage of the mixing, goes on between his ears...
...notably Wendell Willkie, then president of Commonwealth & Southern. Bold and confident, Lilienthal was capable of shrewd self-appraisal. "Mentally on the quick side, resourceful; ingenious, particularly in discussion and strategy development," he wrote of himself. "But not profound, nor capable of understanding subtle psychological analysis. Impatient. Not a natural mixer...
Died. William Bendix, 58, comic and character actor, whose fireplug face and concrete-mixer voice stole the show in more than 50 Hollywood productions (The Hairy Ape, The Babe Ruth Story) and on TV's The Life of Riley, a series about a dopey factory riveter that so tickled the viewers it ran for eight years, bringing Bendix some $3,000,000 in salary-which, as he put it, "isn't bad for a guy who was on relief in 1934"; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Wrenn and a Cambridge officer were the only policemen on duty at the mixer...