Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record companies nears its conclusion and Columbia's long-playing record emerges the victor, a new battle is rising to intrigue technically-minded record listeners. This one pits the standard phonographs made by a few well known companies against custom built equipment. These hand-tailored machines are a rising phenomenon which offer better quality often at lower cost than standard items...
...phonograph be high fidelity and it is here that most standard phonographs suffer. An amplifier that goes up to 15,000 cycles is useless when the needle cannot pick up anything over 6000. Good amplifiers are often found hooked up to poor speakers or changers. The versatility of custom-built arrangements does away with this problem...
Assembling a custom built system requires three or four major parts: amplifier, changer, speaker, and radio tuner (if radio is also desired). How this material is installed and wrapped in a cabinet depends on individual taste and pocketbook...
...village of St. Michel-de-1'Atalaye, high on Haiti's Plateau Central, it was a day of both sadness and fun. The older folk, according to the Haitian custom, alternately wept & wailed, feasted, played cards. For the younger ones there were endless ghost stories and riddles. It was the day of 26-year-old Alina Souf-frant's funeral...
Alina, a sturdy, black peasant girl, had been paralyzed in both legs for six months or more. One day she became feverish and lapsed into a coma. Three days later she stiffened and turned cold; then the wake began. One ancient Haitian custom was omitted: no hill-country witch doctor poisoned her or stabbed her to make sure that she would never become a zombi...