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Then along came the guitar synthesizer. "This guitar does not play a high E, it plays a high anything," claims its Inventor, Walter Sear, a Manhattan tuba manufacturer who worked with Moog for 18 years on the original synthesizer. His instrument looks like a guitar. It plays like one too. There ends the resemblance. Mating a solid-body Plexiglas Armstrong guitar with a Moog by means of an electric umbilical cord, Sear has created an instrument of virtually incalculable sound potential...
...guitar, notes can bend, slide and wave. Sounds can glide through all the frequencies between two fixed pitches-just as the human voice does-enabling Sear's musical clone to produce any sound imaginable. Moreover, the guitar can now match a keyboard Moog's titanic output decibel for decibel. In live performance, the complex studio wall synthesizer with its winking lights and patchcord jungle can be replaced by a portable console...
Ford was invited to Searsport by "Safe Power for Maine," a local citizens' group which hopes to publicize the nuclear power issue throughout the state, and to resist plans by Central Maine Power Co. to build a plant on Sear's island in Penobscot...
...vote for state representative in a two-member district in Burlington, Vt. Republican William C. Mullins '75 of Eiot House won his bid for state representative to the 48th Middlesex district in Massachusetts. Republican David C. Boch '74 of Eliot House lost his bid for the state representative sear in the 17th Norfolk district in Massachusetts...
...Sear Tissue. Haig fully expects to be out of the White House within a week or two and en route to his new post as Supreme Commander of NATO. He recognizes the hostility within the Ford staff. "I feel like a Martian mutation?I've got so much scar tissue," he says wryly. While Haig performed heroically in holding Nixon's White House together in the last days and helped persuade Nixon to resign, suspicions of the general's pro-Nixon sentiments are not groundless. He had, after all, helped push the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, out of office...