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...voices of our times." The Institute's 300,000 tapes and disks, half of them recordings never issued commercially, were donated by private collector, artists, radio stations, the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony. Headquarters for the nonprofit organization are in Carnegie Hall. There Institute President Richard Striker, a 31-year-old exactor, works with six volunteers, surrounded by towering mounds of tapes and recordings...
...Institute's collection begins with an 1888 recording of Poet Robert Browning shouting "Hip, hip, hooray!" for Edison's new machine, and encompasses every form of music right up to the rock 'n' rollers. "Today's trivia," explains Striker, "may interest tomorrow's historian." Singers such as Resnik, Sutherland and Gianna d'Angelo visit the Institute to hear how their predecessors interpreted a role, conductors and musicologists to hear little-known works...
...Saigon is vastly improved, thanks largely to the ingenuity and cooperation of three men - Director General Nguyen Van Dieu of Viet Nam's Administration des Postes et Télécommunications, RCA Communications, Inc. Vice President Charles H. Clark, and Time Inc. Communications Manager John F. Striker...
...April, Striker made a troubleshooting swing through the Far East looking into our communications problems, notably at Saigon, with its one overtaxed radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. More lines were the answer, but how to get them? Clark came down from his base in Manila, and the three men and their colleagues went to work on the problem. Striker found some electronics equipment lying unused in the Saigon cable office. Van Dieu agreed to provide six new channels to Manila. Clark agreed to establish radio channels to the Philippines and link them to the Transpacific cable...
Naturally, there were all kinds of bugs along the way. While assembling the new installation, the technicians learned that two vital parts- magnetic storage elements-were missing. Striker found that they would have to be specially manufactured, ordered them and, fortnight ago, with the two missing links in his hand luggage, flew out of New York for Saigon. Last week, as the new circuit went to work, copy from our Saigon bureau moved to New York in a matter of minutes. Formerly it took as long as twelve hours...