Word: tracker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert, Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum provided its new Dutch-built Flentrop tracker organ, the only one in the U.S. designed for concert purposes. Because the tracker organ operates by direct key-to-valve action, it avoids the breathy sonorities of electrically controlled organs, has an articulate, percussive quality well suited to the rapid trills and runs of 18th century organ style. With Biggs playing the Flentrop and Pinkham * operating a smaller 18th century organ moved in especially for the occasion, the concert unfolded as a gaily trip-hammered dialogue in which one instrument occasionally laid down...
...bars that mark the border. On one side, Israeli soldiers guarded the prisoners on trial. From the other, officers of Jordan's army approached with Mustafa Jela, the seamed and middle-aged owner of the cows. The first witness (from the Jordan side of the fence) was a tracker who followed the path of the cows to the border. The second was a character witness for Jela. "He is an upright man who does not know how to lie," he said. "If he says the cows are his, they are his." Then came Mustafa himself. Swearing his oath...
...sympathy with the causes he is supposed to keep an eye on. Switzerland's Attorney General René Dubois, who personally operated the country's efficient 40-man counterintelligence organization, could not help but feel for France in her North African dilemma. A modest, hard-working tracker of spies, 48-year-old René Dubois, born on the French side of Switzerland and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party, spoke with impatience of the Arab political leaders who visited, or lived, in neutral Switzerland: "They give me a lot of trouble...
...Inertial Navigational System (SINS), designed by M.I.T.'s Dr. Charles S. Draper, will furnish continuous position reports, the location of true north and the ship's speed. Essentially a superrefined gyroscopic system, SINS is self-correcting and will be continuously checked for accuracy against a star-tracker...
...night last week a patrol of rifle brigade troopers, accompanied by special branch officers and tracker dogs, saw shadowy figures rise and run for the edge of a rubber patch near the central Malayan town of Semenyih. They fired. One fell. Next day in Semenyih a handful of Communists who had given up identified the body of Yang Kuo. Said one, gazing down at their old master in murder: "We surrendered, and we still walk and see. Here lies former Comrade Yang Kuo, white-faced, pale and dead." British leaders were jubilant. Yang Kuo was the No. 2 Malayan Communist...