Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From stem to stern, the Eltanin sprouts radio and radar antennas. The biggest of them, an imposing array of two intersecting squares, is specially designed to listen for "whistlers," the strange, low-frequency radio signals that strike down from outside the atmosphere. Most whistlers heard in the Antarctic are believed to originate in lightning flashes in the northern hemisphere. The radio waves apparently climb thousands of miles into the fringes of the ionosphere, guided by the earth's magnetic field; then they curve down again to hit a "coordinate point" in the southern hemisphere...
Global Greenhouse. While Eltanin's biologists ply their nets and trawls and her radiomen tune for whistlers, meteorologists studying the turbulent Antarctic atmosphere will launch weather balloons from a sheltering hangar on the ship's stern. Oceanographers will study the tossing sea water by measuring its temperature, salinity, and oxygen content at all depths ranging up from the bottom. They will chart ocean currents and plunge long tubular probes into the ocean floor. The cores of silt they bring up will give glimpses of Antarctic geologic history over millions of years...
Although he is a masterly performer of Beethoven and Brahms. Stern, 41. is the only topflight violinist who regularly plays the modern masters-Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok, Berg. Each performance is a marriage of technique with the temper of the music. "I don't want to be known only as a violinist," Stern once said. "I want to be a player of music-one whose instrument just happens to be the violin." His ambition is snared by his peers...
...accuracy that so astounded Arturo Toscanini when he first heard Heifetz that he reported, "I nearly lost my mind." Heifetz can reduce an audience to tears, and he does so with a surprising economy of effects. He knows the kind of communication be tween stage and audience that Isaac Stern once described: "Standing on the stage alone with only a piece of wood with some strings and horsehair between you and the audience, you have to have the belief that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation...
...during January's first 15 days ran 53% behind the same period last year, while bank deposits in some areas were doubling. The S. and L.s began to fight back. In California, S. and L.s hiked interest rates to 4.6%. But. hemmed in by the stern disciplines of a mortgage market that brings them only 6% on their housing loans, they could scarcely afford to continue to boost interest, turned instead to gimmicky devices. Some associations have stepped up their tactics of offering clocks and crockery, blankets and bathroom scales to new depositors...