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...bottom, unsure of every transition from mezza voice to full voice and, by the end of the evening, badly hoarse. On every note he worked audibly to stay in tune, but for all his trouble he was consistently flat; occasional sounds had no pitch at all. In the simplest pieces he was mildly affecting, but whatever he thought should be grandiose was rendered with grunts, gasps, bodily jerks, and fierce glances that are even sillier in recital than they are on stage...
...Cliff. Many schemes have been proposed to save Abu Simbel. The simplest one, advanced by French engineers, involves the construction of a semicircular concrete dam 250 ft. high, to wall off the Nile water. The dam would probably cost $80 million, and constant pumping would still be needed to handle seepage. If the pumps were ever stopped, water would soon cover the temple, wrecking its ancient stonework...
...longer version of the same article appeared in Commentary) Hughes says that a campaign such as his "suggests that if a candidate and his friends are willing to go to all that trouble--and with no chance of electoral reward--they must mean what they say. In the simplest terms, this is what we tried to do last spring. We were trying to impress on the minds of our fellow citizens that for a minority of people in one key state of the union the issue of human survival was worth an extraordinary commitment of time and energy. And that...
...sentimentalist, Director Hilliard be came alarmed at the high cost of ignorance in 1959, when the recession receded but relief rolls kept climbing. In a survey of able-bodied reliefers, he discovered that 50% were "functional illiterates," incapable of reading street signs, want ads, or the simplest instructions, and therefore unable to perform even most "service" jobs...
There are two types of transistorized systems. The simplest send only a small current through the breaker points, thus saving wear. The small pulsating current from the points triggers a transistor system that in turn controls the high current needed by the coil. Manufacturers claim that such systems save fuel, give more fire power, make both points and plugs work indefinitely at top efficiency at any speed. An even more rewarding system produced by New Jersey's Motion Inc. includes a capacitor that is charged by the high-tension current that is normally fed directly from coil to spark...