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While a few audio purists might quibble over the fidelity of some of the vintage vinyls, the quality is more than satisfactory for the average listener. For the man with a new hi-fi rig who is looking to build the nucleus of a good standard record library without having to hock his children, the 200-plus selections available in cut-rate classics are just the answer...
...this, Bob Galvin skillfully built the broad diversification begun by his father. The company pioneered the transistor radio, now also manufactures auto alternators and ignitions, electronic speedometers, hi-fi consoles, and exotic semiconductors and solid state devices used to measure and control industrial operations. Last year it introduced a 23-in. rectangular color-TV tube, slimmer and more compact than previous round tubes; it expects to sell 100,000 this year, has jumped to third place in dollar volume of TV sales. "Once we identify ourselves with a field," says Galvin, "we make a determined effort to be dominant...
...acknowledged masterpiece was Mysterion," built by Ed ("Big Daddy ) Roth, who owns a shirt factory m May wood, Calif. One of the most revered fast-iron designers in the US Roth spent $12,000 putting together this machine monster. It has built-in hi-fi and television, huge maximum-traction tires behind and narrow motorcycle tires up front. Its two Ford Thunderbird engines develop 1,000 h p and every cylinder is wrapped in bright chrome...
...girl is engaging and a little eccentric. She talks like a hi-fi turned all the way up and left on all day. But what she says often has insight. "I was a nice girl in a nice family in a nice house in a nice town, and I ran away from home because I was unhappy," she says with no apparent sense of incongruity. She arrived in New York ("If you leave Baton Rouge, you don't go to Cleveland") and began working as a model on Seventh Avenue, but quit after two months. "The garment center...
...Russia is no longer the passive pastoral society that quivered before Stalin. The Kremlin will increasingly feel the pressures of an urban culture that is no longer resigned to an indefinitely receding Utopia. Communism's Kafka-and-abacus stage is already being overtaken by its Pasternak-and-hi-fi era. Affluent Communists might not be any easier to live with. But they would certainly have more to live...