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...AMERICAN FARMER WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MOST INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENT IN MODERN TIMES WAS THE HERDING OF 1,323 SHEEP INTO A COW PALACE AND MAKING THEM SAY AYE IN UNISON, WITH NOT A SINGLE PROTESTING...
...when special page proofs of the Times's regular international edition* were placed on a revolving drum. At the same time, in a small Market Street office in San Francisco, another revolving drum bearing page-sized photographic film was made ready to roll. As the drums spun in unison 1,500 times a minute, electronic equipment carried impulses along the transcontinental circuit and converted them back into light, forming an image of the page on the film. A four-man technical crew supervised by Timesman E. Clifton Daniel Jr. (Mrs. Margaret Truman Daniel served coffee and sandwiches) rushed...
...first group is not very good; the second, much better. Austin's piano music is an agglomeration of modal progressions, cast in big thick chords insensitively connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited to those implicit in the statements. The problem of gaining tonal variety is hardly met in Austin's canons; their only virtue is smooth voice writing...
...hang in the arches on three sides of the tower. Chains attached to them extend to a control platform from which the principal player operates them. He controls the second and third largest bells with a foot lever connected by chains to the clappers. These bells are rung in unison with the big bell, giving a fundamental note which continues throughout the performance. The other bells must be adapted to this basic tone...
Twelve is kinder to his parents. Instead of openly telling a father he is too fat, a boy will simply exclaim: "What a physique!" He is also kinder to his teacher, but if a teacher is obviously unsure of herself, Twelves will begin hurling spitballs or coughing in unison. They are not much concerned about the afterlife: "They give the problem willingly over to the philosophers." But they are altruists and even sensitive to the feelings of others. "If he must step on adult toes," says Gesell, "he does so lightly, and may even deliberately choose the most pyschological moment...