Word: piping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like to put in a word for Farmer East. You have put your finger on the inadequacies of our poor farmers in Vermont, but at the same time suggested a solution. All they need to get them out of the doldrums is a two-story pipe organ in each and every farmhouse. Then they can bat out Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring to their heart's content, without the annoying interruption of having to run out to the barn and pull switches for ten minutes...
Grim looks clouded the faces of Senate Preparedness Subcommittee members last week after Allen Dulles, pipe-puffing boss of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified in secret about the awesome difficulties of U.S. intelligence-gathering inside the Soviet Union. Most worrisome dim spot in U.S. intelligence: estimates of Soviet missile production and deployment are based not on knowledge of actual output but on estimates of missile-making "capability." Some subcommittee members found the present intelligence gap even more distressing than the future missile gap of the early 1960s (TIME, Feb. 9), hinted that they would be willing to vote more money...
...most important thing we've done," says Rawlings, who can look deceptively easygoing with pipe in hand and feet on desk, "is to cut the time in getting our product to its ultimate consumer." The product can be anything from a 4½ton Atlas missile to a bucket of paint; the consumer can be a Strategic Air Command grease monkey in Morocco, an Air Force fighter squadron in Tokyo, a missile-testing crew at Cape Canaveral. Adds Rawlings: "Since 1951 we've just about equipped the Air Force with jet equipment. We've written contracts...
...coffee. While it cooled, he read a story on the "farm problem" in the Wall Street Journal. Carrying his cup and a cigarette, he walked into his living room, 40 feet long and beige-carpeted wall to wall. It was dominated at the far end by a two-story pipe organ flanked by two electronic organs and a grand piano. Farmer North sat down at the console, and after running through a few warm-up chords and arpeggios, began to play Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring...
...overall sound was consistent and balanced, marred only by the lack of bass and excessive reediness resulting from the lack of a big church organ. The substitute, a Rieger pipe-organ borrowed from the N.E. Conservatory of Music was well played by John Ferris, but could not supply the depth required...