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...Senator seems very remote from any political stereo-type. He is no glad-hander: as he gave a radio interview, he stared constantly at the table or his cigarette or gently rubbed his eyebrows, and only rarely looked at his interviewers. Later when he addressed a larger group, he appeared at ease--but never excited, never given to rhetorical flourishes. At times, as he answered the endless questions about the future of Republicanism, he seemed a tolerant New England prep school headmaster-patiently explaining what he had explained so many times before...
...light hand. "I direct by invisible authority," he says. "If things are running right, I don't interfere." He keeps in touch by flying from plant to plant in his private twin-engine Beechcraft, relaxes in his Poona home by listening to Western classical music on a stereo hifi...
Sahl, for example, says that Lyndon Johnson is "the first President in history to put the country in his wife's name." Mentioning Bobby Baker, Mort adds: "Bobby gave Lyndon an expensive stereo set, but Lyndon wasn't really happy with it. What Lyndon really wanted was components-something that could be hidden away in closets...
...Nowicki of the Army Map Service, the traditional method of measuring lunar mountains by their shadows is not accurate enough. It works well only in the center of the moon's visible disk; off toward the edges it fades into uselessness. So the Army has turned to stereo photo-mapping in order to take advantage of the fact that the moon wobbles slightly but predictably at intervals of 3½ to seven years as it orbits the earth. This means that pictures taken of the moon at different times are like pictures taken of earthly objects from different directions...
Just the Answer. Victor, which hauled out its venerable old Victrola label to kick off its new line, offers a rich lode of glittering bargains ($2.50 for each mono LP, $3 for stereo). Among them: Puccini's Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony; and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 with Russian Pianist Emil Gilels backed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. Vanguard Records' new line, Everyman, includes a fine performance of Haydn's Creation, conducted by Mogens Wo¨ldike...