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...purchase, assemble and operate a first-class hi-fi set, a man once had to have the patience of Job, the funds of Croesus and the genius of Edison. In order to find just the right amplifier (power unit), preamplifier (the one with all those knobs), turntable (where the records spin), tuner (hifi for FM radio) and speakers, he had to compare the wares of a large range of component part companies, shell out as much as $1,500, and spend as long as a week hooking all the parts together. The only alternative was a cheap portable phonograph that...
...Sour Notes. At last week's annual High Fidelity Music Show at Manhattan's Trade Show Building, there was a raft of compact all-in-one hi-fi units that cost between $200 and $400 and almost never sound a sour note. With two bookshelf-sized stereo speakers and one compact changer-amplifier unit, the new small-fi's can fit almost anywhere, be operated by the wife and the kids, and still give Dad the kind of sound that he yearns...
...trend began three years ago when Boston's KLH, long a big name in hi-fi speakers, put out a $200 portable unit. It could not reach down to pick up the very lowest notes on the organ, but it did reach a market of music lovers who were willing to forgo a few notes to save hundreds of dollars and considerable bother...
...kiss of defiance, struts arrogantly before the bulls, finally coaxes his frothing and bloodied adversaries to die at his feet. Though Italian Director Francesco Rosi intends a social protest against a contest in which both man and beast are sacrificed to the mob, he instead brings forth a fi'm of brutal and paralyzing beauty, quickened with all the ancient, raging instincts that make a deadly art endure...
...Revolution!" As the mob chanted "Fi-del! Fi-del!" beads of sweat matted Castro's unkempt beard in the broiling afternoon sun. For a Castro speech, it was mercifully short: three hours. Inevitably, he mocked the OAS, upbraided the U.S. Neither the U.S. nor the OAS, Castro boomed, could stop his chief export: Communism. "We call ourselves fighters for Communism! We want revolution; we want the liberation of the peoples of Latin America...