Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much happened for 14 years; the practical difficulties proved considerable. But last week the Navy proudly announced the establishment of man's first practical communications system by way of the moon, linking Washington and Hawaii. To celebrate the occasion, Navy officials displayed a radio photograph sent from Hawaii via the moon, of the carrier Hancock with its crew lined up on the flight deck to spell out "Moon Relay...
...individual tones rather than on the limited, key-oriented diatonic scale). But Stravinsky has added some of his own style to the serial method. In his book, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (Doubleday; $4), Conductor Robert Craft sketched visual projections of musical styles from the simplicity of plain chant via the sound spirals of Atonalist Anton Webern to the newer serialists. Then Stravinsky added his own sketch of his own recent music (see cut). The knobs in the sketch stand for notes, suggest that Stravinsky wants all notes to be heard and considers them more important than do other serial composers...
Harem Asylum. Author Thayer is a fascinating raconteur of diplomatic lore; he knows about the envoys who used to smuggle silk stockings for their Russian mistresses into the Soviet Union via diplomatic pouch, and about Sir Mortimer Durand, onetime British minister in Teheran, who agreed to extend political asylum to 300 dissident members of the Shah's harem. Thayer is equally enlightening about diplomatic immunity (even corpses are immune from autopsies), espionage (one of his favorites is the operative who transported his supply of invisible ink by impregnating his socks with it), the character of embassy receptionists (they...