Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Conductor Rodzinski, 64, was back in Chicago for the first time since his abrupt dismissal as boss of the Chicago Symphony. He came this time at the invitation of the Chicago Lyric Opera to conduct three performances each of Tristan und Isolde and Boris Godunov. In the process he demonstrated much of the brilliance that made him a legend with Chicago audiences a decade ago-but also flashes of the erratic temperament that had antagonized stiff-necked symphony board members...
...further cash put up by Topp when it bought the invention. The major objective of the Marantettes was to eliminate the complex, expensive computers used in previous control systems. Such computers cost $60,000 and up, need trained engineers to program and manage their operations; every instruction in a process must be turned into a mathematical equation, which is fed into a computer and transmitted first to punch tape, then to magnetic tape to guide the machines. The Marantettes' idea was far simpler: they wanted to use a stylus-like device connected to high-speed electric motors to "write...
...second, fast enough to direct the most complex piece of milling work. To start the system, the operator merely runs the machine through its work by hand a first time. As he performs the task, the stylus records his most minute steps on tape, which then slavishly repeats the process endlessly with the pulse-servos. Cost of the system, which comes in a cabinet no bigger than a medium-size hi-fi set: from $12,000 to $25.000, plus $500 or so to fit it to whatever machine tool it is to operate...
Banks & Missiles. One of the first test machines was put to work for Cummins-Chicago Corp., makers of bank business machines, which needed a 600% increase in a certain manufacturing process; it got a 1,200% increase. The company also hoped to save $500 a week; it now saves about $1,000 a week on the process. Now Topp's Micro-Path division, headed by Thomas F. Johns, is out showing the machine to U.S. industry. North American Aviation wants four of the machines; Hughes Aircraft is interested in using the machine on a 20-ft. lathe to drill...
Inevitably, the Jimsonian stream has been carefully filtered of what the censors would call impurities, and in the process much of the essential, grandly unsanitary, superbly healthy quality of Cary is eliminated too. Also absent from the film is Cary's seething energy, but Guinness supplies in its stead a stiff charge of farcical effervescence; and thanks to him. the mixture is never merely sweet. Every now and again the screen even exudes an earthy, salty, gingery, sweaty, whisky whiff of the essential Cary...