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Lost Sheep. Teddy was the leader of a band of Senate liberals attempting to tack onto the voting-rights bill an amendment to outlaw poll taxes in state and local elections. The move was strongly opposed by President Johnson. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who questioned the constitutionality of Teddy's amendment...
...also proposes to tack on five notes at the bottom and ten notes at the top of the keyboard to expand the sound range of the standard piano (from 27.5 to 4,186 cycles per second) to come closer to the range of the human ear (from approximately 16 to 20,000 cycles). Her most far-reaching innovation is a pushbutton electronic system whereby the pianist can play from two to twelve notes simultaneously by striking one key. In effect, she says, this device "will give the player 30 fingers." It will also allow the piano to be "programmed" like...
...original novel, by Morton Thompson, is 948 pages, too long for even Anhalt to memorize. Instead, he read the book three or four times, then ripped off the binding; "I would take those pages which gave me a jazz-for any reason-and tack them up on the wall. I ended up with perhaps 100 pages which excited me. Then I would thread my continuity between that excitement, frequently changing the general moral tone of the book, or its purpose, to fit that excitement...
...ship that "Rupe" Thompson, 59, runs as chairman of Textron Inc., New England's second largest firm and certainly one of the nation's most widely diversified. Once a badly ailing textile firm, Providence-based Textron has abandoned fibers completely and, in an adroitly executed corporate tack, sailed into 65 other profitable lines that have helped raise its sales to $720 million and its profits to $22 million...
...have the papers now taken a different tack? Most have simply gone the way of the community. Worried about economic injury from bad publicity, power structures in many cities have pressured papers to tone down their diatribes. "Most of the newspapers have only been a weathervane, not a guide," remarks one Alabama editor. "There is no evidence of a crisis of conscience," says McGill. "The Civil Rights Act did many newspapers a great favor. The diehards can now bow out gracefully by saying...