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Donald Paarlberg: "The U.S. could compete in the index numbers racket with the Soviets by abolishing the 40-hour week, by drafting women and old men into the labor force, by getting rid of tailfins and hi-fi too, and by closing the churches. They've done it. But we don't have to, so why should...
...Walter Pater's famous, puzzling phrase, "all art constantly aspires towards the condition of music." Abstractionists often make this an argument for dispensing with subject matter, as pure music does. But Burchfield, an ardent hi-fi fan, imbues his landscapes with musical qualities while keeping them close to nature. From the grace notes of its stiff-frozen weeds and goldenrod to the black surge and sudden blazings of its sky, Burchfield's new picture eloquently sings...
Stereo. In Haifa, Israel, annoyed by a howling dog, Hi-Fi Fancier Leon Shaudinischky made an hour-long recording of the dog's bark, played it back at full volume, scared the dog away for good...
...role of an ingenuous, admiring schoolgirl watching Nazi troop movements; at night, from the Lipskis' Pigalle apartment, "Cipine" radioed her findings to London. Handy with pen and brush, Lydia, by 1941, was F-1's chief cartographer. When the infamous female double agent "La Chatte" betrayed the Fi, Lydia began a grim tour of Nazi prisons, ending in Ravensbrueck concentration camp, where, nearly dead from torture and disease, ravished by her guards, she was at last freed in 1944 by the Swedish Red Cross...
...Fi & Seat Belts. The President's flying White House is rigged for the best in comfort and communications. The President himself usually takes off facing forward at a desk in his private compartment; at his side is an ivory-colored telephone that is hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...