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...father of modern music, the driving force behind the art in the twentieth century. With a combination of talent and courage, he opened the pathway down which hundreds of composers have since come. Everyone must know by now the story of the riot at the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, of the mingled approbation and opprobrium he earned for it. By the time of his death, he had gotten a place in the standard repertoire, but he never lost his talent, or his courage...
...would have guessed three years ago that the straight and narrow pathway to success and admiration for a man named William Calley [Feb. 15] would be through his connection with the wholesale slaughter of 102 human beings...
...Japanese are not the only ones working on such a train. In a similar design proposed by Stanford Research Institute at Menlo Park, Calif., the mag-net:c train rides on a concrete pathway about twelve feet wide. Ordinary rails have been replaced by two L-shaped aluminum guide strips (see diagram). As the train's speed increases, the magnets on the underside of the cars act like the moving armatures of an electrical generator, causing currents to flow in the aluminum strips. These currents, in turn, bu:ld magnetic fields of their own. Just as like poles...
...both Japanese and American designers favor linear induction motors. These are similar to conventional electric motors, but they have, in effect, been flattened out. Part of the undercarriage of the train acts as the motor's fixed coils, while a vertical guide rail in the center of the pathway takes the place of its spinning rotor. When enough electrical power is fed into the system, the train begins to move forward. Like an airplane, the train needs old-fashioned wheels for low-speed travel until it reaches "liftoff" at about 50 m.p.h...
...mission used seven helicopters to drop in on a muddy mountaintop fire-support base six miles inside Cambodia. They had been preceded by three barbers, who clipped the shaggy locks of G.I.s outfitted in fresh fatigues for the impending visit. Artillery pieces were moved to drier ground, a pathway and railing were constructed to facilitate inspection of an enemy arms cache and enclosures were erected around open-air latrines to provide VIP privacy. The visitors were treated to a spectacular aerial bombardment of a nearby hillside, although no one claimed that there were enemy troops on it. A colonel called...