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...today's all-purpose stereo-mobiles. Thanks to its introduction into cars, the stereotape cartridge has become the most significant innovation in the $830 million-a-year record market since the advent of the LP in 1948. Four-track stereotape players for autos, sold mostly on the West Coast, have been available for about five years. Not until last September, when the Ford Motor Co. began offering a new eight-track player and cartridge-which crams up to 80 minutes of music on half the length of tape used in a four-track cartridge-did stereotapes begin booming. Lear...
...With the advent of TV, most Senators have found the cameraless Senate chamber a poor place to make headlines. Most days, as a consequence, the Senate floor is about as exciting as a daytime soap opera. All the more dramatic, then, was the scene last week when two of the upper chamber's most celebrated dignitaries - both chairmen of highly important committees -squared off for a direct and bruising battle...
...late 1930s, with the advent of the unmelodic twelve-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg, Ansermet saw darkness. Atonality, he declared, was not music. Drawing on his early background as a mathematics teacher, Ansermet published a complex tome that sought to prove "by mathematical formulas that the strict twelve-tone system is entirely opposed to the laws of hearing...
...course of Schmid's two-week trial for the murders of Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. Juvenile authorities pointed out that many parents either did not care what their children were up to or else hesitated to check on their activities for fear of inhibiting them. The advent of birth control pills has tranquilized the fear of pregnancy among young girls who have no moral reservations about sexual activity. "What are parents and what is the community doing to fill the gap?" asks Mrs. Eileen Strutz, director of the city's Planned Parenthood center. "Nothing...
These are the sound stealers at work, a new breed that has cropped up with the advent of high-powered portable tape recorders. For decades, private collectors have made tapes of live performances by recording them off radio broadcasts in their homes. But the best broadcast is never as good as being there in person. Now, like undercover agents, collectors are sneaking their machines into concert halls, theaters, opera houses and nightclubs and taking home more than a memory of an evening's performance. The most popular battery-powered recorder being used is the $375 German-made Uher...