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Died. George Charles Montagu, 87, ninth Earl of Sandwich, whose :8th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, is credited with concocting the first sandwich (a slab of beef between two pieces of bread) because he once refused to leave the gaming table for a more conventional repast, recipient in 1956 of the National Pickle Packers Association's annual "Pickle Award" in gratitude for the sandwich's assistance in helping the pickle packers peddle a peck of pickles; in Huntingdon, England...
Galen Cisco, the old Ohio State fullback, has pitched well for the Sox, however, and now stands 2-0. Gene Conley, the old Boston Celtics front-court man, is 2-1. And a huge slab of meat (6 ft., 6 in., 240 lbs.) named Dick Radatz has struck out 11 men in six innings of relief work...
...Humphrey's disc set-up deserves a gold medal for unconventionality. To begin with, his turntable is mounted on a 3/4" thick, solid mahogany motor-board, which is in turn affixed to a 1" thick slab of marble! The exact opposite of shock mounting, this insures that a chance whack by anything short of a sledge hammer will leave his needle firmly and serenely in the groove. "Firmly" isn't the right word here, though, since Bruce uses the new Audio Dynamics ADC-1 cartridge and tracks it (in his home-made professional arm) at about 3/4 of a gram...
...potpourri of fields which the University considers to belong among music, the arts, or literature. This winter's speaker is architect Felix Candela, who entered the profession on the theory that it "sounded as good as any other" and is now one of the most skillful designers of thin-slab concrete structures in the hemisphere...
Thin sheets of saddle-shaped concrete typify Mr. Candela's architecture; a geometrician would describe them as sections of a hyperbolic paraboloid. Their most common application is in roofs for large buildings, since an inch-and-a half thick slab shaped in this way requires only one support for every 2500 square feet, far fewer than a flat surface would require...