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...Namur, Belgium, expert ophthalmologists welcomed it because its memory is infallible. To brief his machine on the cornea, Dr. Paycha fed it a whole textbook plus references to articles in medical journals. Next project: glaucoma and diseases of the iris. Inventor Paycha believes his robot will work for any organ. His ultimate goal: to have a medical publishing house prepare sets of the cards so that mass health surveys as well as medical colleges and hospitals may use cybernetic diagnosis...
...Oklahoma City's northern edge, in 41 acres of what was once part of a golf course, workmen are busy this week installing an organ in the Church of Tomorrow. That is what Pastor Bill Alexander calls it. Some Oklahomans refer to it as Space Headquarters, and that is all right with Pastor Bill. For his First Christian Church is all but out of this world...
...raiment in Spain stays mainly on the plain side; the church sees to it that feminine fashions contribute as little as possible to man's proclivity toward sin. But summertime sports like swimming and tennis present special perils, and in last week's Ecclesia, official organ of Catholic Action in Spain, Bishop Ramon Masnou of Vich warned priests of his diocese to be watchful. Wrote the bishop: "We wish to call special attention to dresses in female sports . . . Modesty must never be sacrificed in sport, nor should sport become a subterfuge for perverse exhibitionism. Bear this in mind...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...
...heresy around these parts to say so, but Biggs is far from the last word in organ playing. He approaches almost all pieces in the same way, and they come out with a universally choppy, detached phrasing. Muddy playing is a grievous sin; but Biggs goes to the other extreme with his constant staccato jabbing. It grates on the nerves, and after about 15 minutes I was yearning for some sustained chords and some smoothly flowing lines. He also often attacks the keyboard from such a height that he strikes neighboring notes...