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...week's normal schedule can car ry coast to coast enough freight to fill 20 boxcars. Using prepacked freight pallets, special lift mechanisms and aircraft floors with built-in rollers, crews can load and unload jet freighters in less than half the time it takes to load a piston plane with one third the cargo capacity. Air freighters can offer overnight delivery on both coast-to-coast and transatlantic shipments...
...selling block-frozen string -beans instead? What if Goodyear and Firestone were to stop producing bulging pneumatic rotundities that tread softly and squeal raffishly? And what if Boeing-maker and creator of the 707s-were to open its vast doors only to release a string of skinny, canvas-covered, piston-driven biplanes...
Their bow tips rise and fall over their nine violins with the discipline of smoothly moving piston rods. Be neath the ping of a pizzicato the big-bellied strings-three violas, three cellos and a bass-growl like well-tuned sports cars. The horns sing out on the curves as the harpsichord taps its deli cate echo in the background...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will open its 1963-64 season tonight with a concert honoring Dr. Walter Piston '24, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, Emeritus, who taught music at Harvard for 30 years...
Under the baton of Dr. Henry Swoboda, the orchestra will present the first New England performance of Dr. Piston's Symphonic Prelude. It will also give the New England premiere of Prokoflev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 3, honoring the composer on the tenth anniversary of his death. The concert will end with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, the "Eroica...