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...without being able to read a note of music. That in itself is not so odd, since most pop performers nowadays cannot sing a note of music. "What I just seem to have," he says, "is an infallible ear for picking hits." He picks them by getting unsung writers to produce them on order. "I can hear a kid hit a note," he says, "and I know whether he has it or not." He keeps a farm team of young writers whom he pays $50 to $200 a week in retainers against royalties...
...this, the Vietnamese will be helped by a band of young Americans who are already risking their lives to bring aid and know-how to the countryside. So far, two AID men have been kidnaped and eight have died-in ambushes and assassinations-on this unsung duty. One new arrival is Steve Shepley, a 27-year-old New Yorker, who is USAlD's action representative in the Delta province of An Xuyen. Puttering unarmed in a 35-h.p. boat through the Viet Cong-infested paddies, he visits village after village, chatting with the people in fluent Vietnamese, assessing their...
Right Answers, Right Time. Despite such complexities, the scheduled maneuvers were perfectly calculated by one of the unsung heroes of the mission: an IBM 7094 Mode II computer, one of five located deep in the bowels of NASA's Mission Control Center near Houston. Primped and primed and ready to go for more than a year, the electronic memory housed in the grey, blue-trimmed cabinets had been taught all the incredible complications of orbital calculations, had learned the long, involved equations worked out by teams of crack mathematicians...
...mademoiselle at all, but a tall, slim widow named Marie Lecoq who worked as a waitress at the Café de la Paix. Furthermore, during the four years that British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried to kiss her in the café. Its first verse, written by a sergeant who watched the action...
...welcome awaited the returning veterans. Vainly did the Times of London plead that "justice be done to those men who have had the dust and toil, without the laurel of victory." In this masterful and highly readable book, British Historian Alan Palmer sets out to do justice to this unsung campaign. From the first landings of the French and British at Salonika in 1915, the Macedonian theater was treated as an unwanted stepchild of the Allied high command and the dumping ground for cashiered generals. As Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, saw it, the Macedonian...