Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fassett; Columbia). Fun and games with a tape recorder (on LP), showing how musical tones and the sounds made by dogs, birds and babies change when drastically sped up or slowed down. The effect is startling and instructive, e.g., a piano played in reverse sounds like a reed organ with hiccups, a canary's trill slowed eight times sounds like a baying hound...
...House (J. Arthur Rank; Republic) is a delightful example of formaldehyde humor, the kind of grisly, hospital-corridor hilarity that makes a patient wonder, in the darkness of the night, if that jovial doctor of his really understands that a man's only liver is a very serious organ...
Music Hath Charms. In Chicago, Church Organist Robert J. Metzler, 50, got a court injunction against Harriet Davis, thirtyish, and her mother, Mrs. Belle Davis, fiftyish, complained that for four years they had upset his organ playing by coming to church on Sundays and ogling him from the front...
...state work. I clearly see that the carrying out of the complicated and responsible duties of Chairman of the Council of Ministers is being negatively affected by my insufficient experience in local work, and the fact that I did not have occasion, in a ministry or some economic organ, to effect direct guidance of individual branches of the national economy...
Understanding & Confetti. In Mexico City the Vice President paid a visit to the renowned Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where for the first time in memory the organ boomed out The Star-Spangled Banner. Foreign statesmen on official tours usually refrain from visiting the shrine, possibly out of fear of offending the once ardent anticlerical sentiment that still lingers faintly among many educated Mexicans. But at the church, Archbishop Luis María Martínez said to Nixon: "You have shown understanding in coming to this shrine, for it is the heart of Mexico." When Nixon came...