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Most explicit exponent of the theory is Frederick A. Stahl, president of Manhattan's Standard & Poor's Corp. Argues Stahl: "Businessmen all work and operate in unison. They all belong to the same clubs, so business sentiment is pretty much developed through their exchange of ideas. Everybody was convinced by the President's stand on steel and the market drop that there would be a business recession. They began to adopt policies to protect themselves, such as cutting inventories and dropping unnecessary personnel." In effect, Stahl contends, businessmen took the steps they usually take after a recession...
...switch that opens an electronic lock on the missile flight. They call the two control officers. The two, sitting 15 ft. apart, pick up separate telephones to receive, decode and authenticate the orders. Each must agree that it is a valid command. They go through a launch sequence in unison, break lead seals on their console buttons. The birds still will not fire until another two-man crew in another capsule sends a concurring signal. Finally, any of five control centers in each squadron can push a switch labeled "inhibit" and stop the launch...
...Nash asks for a show of hands: how many people at least don't want to invade Cuba? Most of the audience seems agreed--except, of course, those freshmen. Telegram blanks are handed round by the Tocsins. The freshmen march outside, their black umbrellas aloft, chanting in unison, "We have secured peace in our time." "Well," says one boy walking home, "it was a choice between this and the Bob Hope Show --and I'm glad I came to this...
...Bach lived, Miss Boron maintains, he intended to have 14 fugues each preceded by a canon "in the manner of meditations or commentary on each Station"--with canon 1 at the unison, canon 2 at the second, etc. (a scheme Bach did in fact employ in the Goldberg Variations). But of the four canons Bach did write (omitted in this performance), one is by augmentation in contrary motion, which already upsets her numerical scheme...
Trying to avoid offending anybody, the Regents adopted this "nondenominational" compromise: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Many school boards adopted the prayer. Normally it was spoken by the class in unison at the start of each school day, with the teacher leading the recitation. In keeping with state court decisions, the Regents notified school authorities that no child could be compelled to say the prayer, and that any child had the right to be excused from the room while the prayer was being...