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...Shoe. Yet there could be no better proof that modern music still has something to offer Bream,and he to it, than his latest RCA album, 20th Century Guitar. In compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Frank Martin, Hans Werner Henze and Reginald Brindle, he weaves nimbly through some fierce technical obstacles, catching the harshness of the contemporary idiom while losing none of the guitar's characteristic aplomb and lucidity. Best of all is his performance of Nocturnal, a 19-minute mood piece written especially for him in 1963 by Benjamin Britten. Spiraling through a set of variations that end rather...
...expanded repertory represented by Bream's new recording is certain to increase his popularity, which already is great enough to sell out auditoriums like Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and London's Wigmore Hall for guitar-lute recitals. Young people, especially, like his old-shoe manner-he slouches spread-legged in a chair, chatting and joking with the audience between selections-and look to him as a sort of troubadour of time-tested musical values. "The young love the clarity, order and logic of my music," he says. "They are people who are looking not only forward but back." People...
...Center in San Francisco. The new device is bound to the leg by the familiar calf band of reinforced leather; an aluminum bar runs down the outside of the leg. At the ankle, it is hinged to a semicircular metal yoke that fits loosely around the heel of the shoe. This first hinge-type joint permits up-and-down motion. On the yoke behind the heel is a second joint bearing a metal pin that is screwed into the heel of the shoe. This permits sidewise motion...
...keep his landlocked, Wisconsin-size nation from being swallowed up by its giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce and is pledged to defend the kingdom, has built a rival road south from Katmandu toward Calcutta. The Russians have chipped in with...
...electrical resistance reappears. Thus by alternately applying and withdrawing a magnetic field, scientists can turn a superconductor into an on-off switching device many times faster (and many times smaller) than the solid-state semiconductors now used computers. With cryogenic techniques, a closet-size computer could fit in a shoe box. Cryogenics will also make possible such esoteric devices as loss-free superconductive motors with rotors that float in liquid helium, and superconductive gyroscopes that float in frictionless magnetic fields...