Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several bushels of problems. The Soviets like to pay only 25% down for their wheat, and the rest over 18 months. But U.S. law forbids credit sales to countries that have defaulted on their debts to the U.S., as the Soviets did on their lend-lease debt to the tune of $800 million. Beyond that, the U.S. taxpayer would be subsidizing the sale: to make up the difference between the high-propped U.S. price of about $2.30 and the world market price of about $1.75, the Government pays U.S. wheat exporters 550 or so per bushel. Congress wrote into...
...chairman of Sheraton Corp., which operates more hotels and motels (87) than any other chain, is a sometime composer of "popular tunes" (Just for You, Come with Me), who is "afraid that I haven't rivaled Irving Berlin." Ernest Henderson, 66, is better at the sort of tune he sang last week when he announced that Boston-based Sheraton expects to be in the black this year after suffering the first loss in its 26-year history in fiscal 1963. Gentle and somewhat shy in appearance, Henderson is actually a nail-hard and penny-conscious executive who goes about...
Solemn Bows. Vexations' première proved it to be in many ways Satie's finest joke. After even a dozen hearings, the music became more a hex than a vex, its funereal tune permanently etched in everyone's ear. The august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed...
...samba and throw paper streamers. Asked how much he paid for his costume, one dancer replies: "Ten million cruzeiros." The samba suddenly breaks into a tortured twist. Finally, of course, humanity is crucified-all 720 players form a giant Cross and carry their torches into the night to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March...
...American enthusiast named Richard Simonton bought the rolls from the poor and aging Welte. But the first attempts to record them two years later were marred by everything from the sound of overhead airplanes to freezing temperatures that kept the piano out of tune. Further attempts since then have achieved somewhat better results, but nothing close to contemporary sound standards. Last year Simonton turned the rolls over to Walter Heebner, 46, a master of modern recording techniques. Played back on a modern Steinway in an acoustically ideal studio, and recorded by a battery of seven microphones, Welte's legacy...