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Text on Yiddish Singing U.S./Russion Symposium Old Technique, New Troining
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Dr. Arthur Graham, professor of music Dr. William Y. Adams, a professor of The quality control and problem solv-   '
at the University of Kentucky, recently anthropology who is considered the ing technique which helped spark j `
published a textbook, Singing Yiddish: world’s authority on Nubia (a region of Japen’s postwar resurgence is being of-  t j
Pmnunciatians, Song Textx and Translations. Sudan) is among 20 U.S. archaeologists fered to Kentucky industries through a ‘ i
Co-authoring the book is Dr. Howard who participated in a symposium of program sponsored by the UK Com- `
I. Aronson, chairman of the Slavic lan- American and Soviet archaeologists munity College System, ` ,
guages department and an expert in di- May 7-9 at the Smithsonian Institution Approximately 35 UK community
alects at the University of Chicago. The in Washington, D.C. college instructors and industry repre- · _
book culminates several years of re- Eight to 12 Soviet archaeologists at- sentatiyes haye been trained in the   {
search by Dr. Graham in the Yiddish tended the symposium, the first in the teehnique..ealled Statistical Process    
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terest in his own ethnic background. in the Soviet Union and in the United industries across the state_  `· ,
DI`. Graham, Wl`lO is l(l'1OWI'1 tl`1I`Ol,1ghOL1[   Statistical Procoss Control ornpha-  l  
the United States for singing in operas, Adams is considered the world’s au- sizes the labor-rnanagerncnt team ap- -  I
wrote the text for people like himself thority on the culture of Nubia which proach in industry which has beeome a ` ;
who wished to sing Yiddish songs but lies between Africa and Egypt on the central theme in large Japanese nrrnS_ ` T
have had little or no background in pro- Nile River. Adams also has excavated It has also been adopted by Ford Motor
nunciation or interpretation of the lan- at Q_asr Ibrim, an island created by the Company, General Motors, [BM, ,
guage. The text is the handbook he Aswan Dam in Lake Nasser. His work TRW and many other U_S_ Corpo-  
himself needed as a student of Yiddish there was featured in the BBC "Discov— ra[ionS_ t ·
songs. ery" Series. Adams also has excavated <·ImpOrtam1y’ many corporations ` A
at Knlnbnarn In Sudan and in thc which utilize this technique are requir- i
Western U·S· ing this same type of program in their ·
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active volcanoes, says University of · - Y ,, P A
, statewide for industry.
Kentucky gcologlst J ’_ Gregory Statistical Process Control is based on  ~_
  McHone. McHone 1S studying the forc- th 1· · · · 1 f
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X { es that literally split the continents apart W Edwards Deming an American ~
» { about 180 million years ago, forming méthcmatician ’  I
  the Atlantic Ocean In face he Says the Ironicall his statistical theories were
Atlantic continues to widen by the rate Y, .
. used to advance U.S. war efforts in
of about an inch each year. The volca- WW H then were adopted byjapancse 1
noes, however, are long gone from the - d ’ h b -1 · h 1950 _
Dt/\r1hurGr¤h¤m eastern U.S. althou h k f d m ustry as t €y· rc mi m t 6 S to  
. ’ . g Some FOC {Jun become a world industrial superpower.
in the area is of volcanic origin.
McHone believes the volcanoes were ~
formed at the time the continents ini- ,
tially split, but whether they were a i
cause or a result of the split is still un-
known. The forces which continue to .
move the continents apart are similar to
the stresses which cause earthquakes.
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