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...trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts a bullfight with a moment of swoosh, then the U.S. is plotting to kill the corrida...
...just about any effect he wants with the aid of an array of recorders and filters plus generators that may rumble, screech, thunder, and produce other items of planned flatulence. By varying the signals sent to the 20 loudspeakers spotted about the auditorium, Stockhausen can make his sounds swoosh along a wall, tinkle in a corner or explode over the head of the audience. He first roughs out his ideas on paper in a series of symbols, then goes to the studio to see what sounds will fit his imagined score, finally records on tape, splices, and re-records...
...over the U.S., homemade rockets are fizzing, exploding and-on rare occasions-soaring into the sky. Sometimes they fall to earth, their launchers know not where. A San Antonio housewife hanging out her wash heard something swoosh down from above, and a length of pipe buried itself in the earth close to her feet. In Boston the National Fire Protection Association urged that amateur rocketry be prohibited until a strict system of supervision can be established...
...triumph [was] when we nearly drowned him." Says Gary: "We were little anti-Christs." Readers who insist on a well-made, plot-laden novel had better pass this one up, but those who relish reminiscences of childhood' will find that it goes down fine -with a healthy, natural swoosh, like water through a chimney...
...Nashua eased wide, as Jockey Eddie Arcaro held him off the pace. Summer Tan, too, ran with the pack. Coming around the stretch turn again, Nashua made his move. He pulled up for a split-second look at Swaps, and then Shoemaker took his mount away. Said Arcaro later: "Swoosh went Swaps." Nashua just did not have it. Swaps drove past the wire, winner by a length and a half and richer by $108,400. In show position, 6½ lengths back, came fading Summer...