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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra announced last night the election of officers for 1965. Elected were President Karen A. Monson '66 of Moors Hall and Newburgh, New York; Vice-President Edgar G. Engelman '67 of Lowell House and San Mateo, California; Treasurer Janis Richter '67 of Holmos Hall and Abbington, Pennsylvania; and Secretary Ti Bodenheimer '67 of Holmes Hall and Salt Lake City, Utah...
INSTRUMENTAL: Pieces often played by students reveal unsuspected subtleties as Glenn Gould makes eloquent the several voices in Bach's Two-and Three-Part Inventions (Columbia) and Artur Rubinstein turns Chopin's Waltzes into lilting, sparkling poems (RCA Victor). Sviatoslav Richter makes Schubert's "Wanderer" Fantasia sing (Angel), and John Browning premieres what may become one of tomorrow's classics, though not too different from yesterday's: Samuel Barber's 1962 Piano Concerto (Columbia...
Laminated Biceps. Modern industrial design has ceased its T-square solemnity and turned capricious. A crash helmet by Bell-Toptex Inc.'s Frank Heacox and Roy Richter becomes a more modern exoskull, whose transparent visor frees, yet protects, nose, eyes and jaw. A single-finned surfboard, made of fiber-glassed balsa, is-above and below its shallow water line-both a platform and a watery missile. A laminated archer's bow, by Bill Stewart of Bear Archery Co., is the winglike translation of the human biceps, and thus its 35-lb. pull ally...
...damage at over a billion dollars and estimate they will be rebuilding the city for the next two years. Yet Niigata had not exhausted all its luck. Only 27 people died and 403 were injured-a miraculously low figure for an earthquake that measured 7.7 on the Richter scale, only slightly less than Japan's worst, the 7.9 temblor of 1923 that killed...
This is what happened in Alaska, where active faults are numerous. The amount of rock movement that took place has not yet been estimated, but Dr. Richter believes that the quake registered at 8.4 on the Richter energy scale, which he invented. By his reading, it ranks among the most powerful of recent earthquakes, exceeded in strength only by the Tibetan quake...