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Technique in music involves the totality of all aspects of music. Content & technique are identical, since the only things valuable in a composition are those that achieve realization, & nonidentical, since the force of a piece of art results from a dynamic tension between its interior & exterior. Today the act of musical reproduction is an integral part of the act of composition. However, if art becomes its own reproduction, then reproductions may become art, & this tension will be reduced. Several theoretical deductions related to praxis are proposed: (1) consideration of the relationship between result & expenditure, (2) control of the extent to which construction extends to the phenomena, (3) live performance as the test of the relation between construction & phenomena, (4) the mastery of profusion, (5) functional instrumentation as a parameter of composition, & (6) the illusion of complete predetermination in composition. M. Migalski.

The ICRC has appointed Mr. Ulrich Wasser to the post of director of the Central Tracing Agency as from 1 March to succeed Mr. Pierre Basset who has reached retirement age.

The opening ceremony for the new building of the Central Tracing Agency took place at the ICRC on 29 October 1984. During the inauguration about one hundred guests were addressed by Mr. Pierre Aubert, Federal Councillor and head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jacques Vernet, Vice-president of the State Council of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, Professor Jean-Werner Huber, Director of the Federal Buildings Office, and Mr. Alexandre Hay, President of the ICRC.

MALADMINISTRATION IS PARTLY AN ACQUIRED TECHNIQUE AND PARTLY A MATTER OF INSTINCT. THE REPORTS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER PROVIDE A USEFUL BODY OF CASE STUDIES FOR THE YOUNG PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO IS KEEN TO SECURE A GRASP OF THE FINER POINTS OF MALPRACTICE. NO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT HAS YET BEEN FOUND CAPABLE OF MALADMINISTRATION IN ITS PURE FORM BUT CLOSE APPROXIMATIONS ABOUND.

Measurements of height of cane hand, cane length, step size, and forearm length of 17 cane, using blind subjects were taken for the purpose of testing the hypothesis that the touch technique does not provide 100 percent path coverage. Percent path coverage for the touch technique and the modified technique of Uslan and Manning was compared. The modified technique offered the complete protection of full path coverage and afforded subjects information about a substantial area that the touch technique did not.