Word: oak
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...leave and play their New York concerts in Carnegie. "You can imagine how I felt about that," said Fisher, one of the pioneer manufacturers of sound equipment. The entire inside of the Fisher Hall was gutted. Harris put in 2,742 new seats, with fabric (velvet) and wood (oak) carefully designed to be minimally sound absorbent. All the old seats had been removed; some were given to a fledgling theater group only a few blocks away. The Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, part of the rear wall, was sold for $100,000 (original cost: $175,000) to a California church. Virtually...
...Hall-has an optimum effect on the sound produced. Like them, the new Fisher Hall is a rectangle (120 ft. from the rear wall to the stage apron, 69 ft. 8 in. between the narrow side balconies). Similarly, the main floor and stage are constructed of wood (darkly stained oak) over an air space, so that they will act as sounding boards. The hall is snugger than before (650,000 cu. ft., v. 850,000), and since any pianissimo needs silence, each air-conditioning duct is lined, and the tightly sealed doors weigh 370 Ibs. each. Every piece of plaster...
Sunday morning bright and early Streets of maple, oak and birch Populate themselves with people On their quiet way to church...
During the summer, Texas prison officials decided that the time had come. They installed a new wiring system in "Old Sparkey," the state's natural-oak electric chair. The electric chairs in Georgia and Florida were also rewired and got other minor repairs. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for their return to use. On the first day after the summer recess, the nine Justices announced that they would not reconsider their ruling of last July upholding the constitutionality of capital-punishment murder statutes in the three states.* The Justices forthwith lifted a stay that...
...band have chalked up over a dozen arrests on such charges as assaulting a police officer and possession of amphetamines. Last year Skynyrd ruined more than half the exercise machines at Nashville's Spence Manor Hotel. During a recent trip to Bristol, England, Van Zant threw an oak table out a fifth-story hotel window. "We were just having fun, letting off pressure," he remarked afterward. "It was funny when the cops came in and looked at us like we were mad dogs." But it wasn't so funny several months ago at New York's Beacon...