Word: rca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shiftover called for many skills alien to the old airframe makers. Each successive generation of planes relied more heavily on electronics-a science pioneered by such ground-based giants as A.T. & T., General Electric Co. and RCA. And with the advent of missiles, where guidance and propulsion are more important than the "tin can," the planemakers found themselves losing more and more defense dollars to previously ground-bound companies that did not know a vertical stabilizer from a hole in the wall but were expert in automatic control systems or chemical fuels...
...jointed robots for exploring the moon (see cuts) were outlandish contraptions; some of them were serious and imaginative attacks on the difficult problem of studying the lunar surface before humans learn how to survive there. RCA showed a six-legged job that walks cautiously on circular rubber feet, a small six-legger that looks like a metal praying mantis, an inflated plastic ball, and a moon rover that creeps like a centipede. Perhaps the best thought out of the tribe was an insectlike machine made by Space-General Corp. Powered by solar batteries, it walks on long, jointed metal legs...
...center can easily be made safe from light fallout: a survey has already proved that the center's water tanks-all located underground-are safe from radiation; windows in the central control board room in the yo-story RCA building are being bricked up to preserve the center's communications with its buildings. Next year the center will start on a far harder project-safeguarding underground shelters where workers and sightseers could wait out heavy fallout. Says Center President G. S. Eyssell: "We hope and pray that the thing we're preparing for will never happen...
Swing Classics (Lionel Hampton and his jazz groups; RCA Victor). A collection of some of the hallelujah blasts-Whoa Babe, Central Avenue Breakdown, Jivin' with Jarvis-that made Hampton tall on the bandstand back in the late '30s, when most of these tracks were recorded. The assorted personnel-Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie. Coleman Hawkins, Jess Stacy-are first-rate, and the unremitting frenzy of their attack is a fine antidote to the cool moods of modern chamber jazz...
Djangology (Django Reinhardt; RCA Victor). The late great gypsy guitarist in previously unreleased recordings made in Rome in 1949-50. Three of Reinhardt's four companions are Italian jazzmen-not members of the Quintet of The Hot Club of France, as the album cover claims-and they go about as far in international understanding as a rhythm section can go. As for Reinhardt. in such numbers as Bricktop, Beyond the Sea and his own Djangology, he is by turns piquant and fiery, still a master at gracefully dandling a tune...