Word: toms
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Wednesday afternoon, local officials: Governors John Evans of Idaho, Joe Garrahy of Rhode Island, Tom Judge of Montana, Ed King of Massachusetts, Dick Riley of South...
Carolina, Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania; Mayors Unita Blackwell of Mayersville, Miss., Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, Richard Carver of Peoria, ILL, Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, Ed Koch of New York, Henry Maier of Milwaukee, Coleman Young of Detroit; State Senator Polly Baca-Barragan of Colorado; State Representative Philip Davitt of Iowa; State Speakers Stanley Fink of New York and Ned R. McWherter of Tennessee...
...NAMES. Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Richard Farina, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger, Taj Mahal, Geoff Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, John Sebastian, all spanning a decade. Von Schmidt sees an enduring musical "scene," based on the fact that people wanted to hear this music. Today that scene doesn't exist, and while von Schmidt wants badly to believe that the listeners are out there, he acknowledges popular decline of the folk movement, and the powerful appeal of electronic music...
Borg also beat Tom Gorman, 33, an unseeded American, and India's Vijay Amritraj, 25, en route to the finals. There his opponent was Roscoe Tanner, 27, a hard-serving Tennessean seeded fifth. Tanner's appearance in the finals was not altogether popular, since his triumph in the semifinals came at the expense of the tournament's giant killer: Pat DuPre, 24, a lanky (6 ft. 2½ in., 180 Ibs.) Belgian-born Alabaman who now lives in La Jolla, Calif. Ranked a lowly 28th in the U.S., DuPre tiptoed into the first round and ambushed fourth...
This is how it works. Even the best records available today are recorded by the analog method invented by Thomas Edison about a century ago. With analog, sound is reproduced by recording the vibrations made by the sound waves, which were collected by young Tom and his associates through a horn, and then directed to a needle pressed against a metal cylinder wrapped in tin foil. The sound waves caused the needle to vibrate and to trace a wavy groove on the soft surface of the cylinder. This is kindergarten stuff, even allowing for the introduction of magnetic tape...