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Muzak programmers have studies that show precisely when workers get grumpy and lazy (10:30 in the morning, 3:30 in the afternoon), and they use their knowledge to plan programs of counteracting melodies, saving strong medicine such as Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo and Pass That Peace Pipe for the two big slumps. The tonic sometimes becomes addictive, as in the case of one Irving Wexler, who gets a thorough musication every day in his job as Miami's Muzak man. "I have Muzak in every room of my home," he says proudly. "Twenty-four hours a day. We sleep...
...NEEDLE -IN -THE -HAYSTACK" FINDER was devised to eliminate dangerous bits of baling wire in cattle feed. Davis engineers wrap a coil of copper wire around a standard pneumatic conveyor pipe that carries feed from chopper to storage bin. The wire is energized to set up a magnetic field inside the pipe. When a piece of iron or steel disturbs the field, an electrical pulse triggers a device that closes off the pipe's supply of feed and opens a side slot. Out flies the baling wire, along with a small amount...
...even complained to Washington about the differentials. But the Congressional Joint Economic Committee got wind of the matter in May and tipped off Kennedy. The Congressmen -notably the committee's chairman, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas-were shocked to learn that, for example, the freight for U.S. steel pipe and tubing outbound to Europe is $42.40 a ton, while the inbound rate is $22.62. Scotch whisky moves to New York at a shipping cost of 840 a case; U.S. bourbon heading in the opposite direction is nicked...
...comes the mysterious Dr. Ox, who builds a "gasworks" and begins laying pipe so that the good villagers can enjoy the luxury of gaslight in their homes. Or so everybody thinks. Actually Dr. Ox plans to flood the place with oxygen to see if things perk up a little...
...repertory of 1,200 numbers goes from spirituals to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Backed up by the 10,000-pipe tabernacle organ, with Veteran Organists Alexander Schreiner or Frank Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...