Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern technology has spawned a new kind of instrument maker. The old craftsmen of music worked with wood, strings and valves; the new ones hook up wires, transistors and wave generators. The sounds the new products make are not echoes of the human voice but a bizarre collection of buzzes, bleeps and squawks. Nonetheless, the men responsible for them are the potential Stradivaris and Steinways of electronic music, and their forbiddingly complex instruments are made for the musicians of the future-who are destined to be as much composer-technicians as performers...
...program has produced three Chiefs of Staff: Leonard Wood, George Decker and George C. Marshall. Claire Chennault, Curtis LeMay and William Dean, the Korean War hero, were also ROTC-trained. Currently, about one-third of the Army generals are ROTC men, including five major generals who are commanding divisions in Viet Nam; only one division there is headed by a West Pointer. Says Brigadier General Clifford Hannum, head of the Army ROTC: "The worst thing you could do is cause the Army to turn inward for its officers...
Until this week, six doors to the basement of the apartment house were unlocked, and storage rooms are still filled with wood, newspapers, and paper boxes. Staircases leading to the basement and some storage rooms are unit. A resident described the situation as "disgraceful...
Harvard's only loss of the afternoon came when Navy's Charlie Wood defeated John Ince, 3-1, in the sixth match...
...bombings of an Atlanta synagogue and a newly integrated Tennessee high school as the work of "rabid, mad-dog minds" and warned: "When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe." Yet McGill could also write warmly of "the acrid, nostalgic smell of wood burning beneath the weekly washday pots; the pine-and-oak smoke from chimneys of farmhouses fighting with the smell of wet-plowed earth...