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...filter which regulates the timbre. This filter is run by a miniature keyboard and works like button-tuning on radio sets; by pressing one button, instead of getting WLW or KNX, the pusher gets cello or clarinet. Next the current flows into the amplifier, controlled by a foot pedal, finally comes out of the loudspeaker. If done properly, it comes out as music...
...relatively little training. He sets three dials, recording the altitude and speed of his own ship and the wing span of the target plane (after he recognizes the type), then looks through the sight itself -a circle of orange light with a dot in the center. Using a foot pedal to regulate the circle's size, he frames the target, from wing tip to wing tip, in the circle (see cut). The machine then instantaneously makes all the necessary computations; all the gunner has to do is press the trigger...
...Pedal Extremity. In Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Very Perry won a divorce on the ground that her husband, Joaquin, to keep her from running around at night, soaked her shoes in water, put them in the oven to bake and shrink...
...does a spider stretch its legs? That question is an old zoologist baffler. Spiders have no leg-stretching muscles, yet they have an unquestioned ability to unflex all eight pedal extremities. A Caltech biologist, after long study, has finally solved the riddle: the answer is blood pressure...
Some crack London correspondents only grudgingly admit that Fred Kuh is best in their craft; none will deny he is the hardest working. He never takes a day off. He has some 50 assorted sources he taps regularly by pedal work or phone. It has been said that the difference between a good reporter and a brilliant one is that the latter has known his sources more than 20 years. Kuh has been a correspondent in Europe most of 24 years. Says he: "At least one man I knew 24 years ago was then just above a male charwoman...