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...physically not very big. A six-footer can look him straight in the flashback reels. But his voice carries 18 rock 'n' roll records an hour to FM radios within 100 miles of Kenmore Square. The human beings at WRKO-FM (98.5) call their one-piece radio station "the shy but friendly robot," which is catchy but far from accurate as a description. He gets about so quickly that already, only five weeks after arriving in Boston, he receives several hundred calls a night. And when it comes to friendliness, he's as cold as Petula Clark...
...original impetus came from a Federal Communications Commission ruling that required AM-FM stations in cities with over 100,000 population to split their programming at least 50 per cent of the time. Boston's WNAC, which had been simulcasting its all talk-information format over WNAC-AM and WRKO-FM, had to come up with something new by January...
...spend they do, on everything from FM stereo sets (52% of the families own one or more) to theater tickets (71% attend) to home power tools (58%). The average family avidly collects records (77%) and travels extensively (nine out of ten families took trips in 1965, 27% of them outside the country). Mr. Subscriber and his family enjoy all kinds of outdoor activity: three out of four swim, four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks...
...Golf Course. Dial phones-some 3,000 of them-are being installed, and Cavalrymen can tune in to Big Valley Radio, a twelve-hour FM station built by the troopers from scrounged equipment and featuring mainly rock 'n' roll tapes contributed by the men themselves. In the heat of An Khe's sunny clime, ice is still a luxury. When the Cav arrived, a local entrepreneur hauled in ice from Pleiku every day, most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show...
...They scramble into the rafters to scrub the grime off the spotlights, hustle around a club blowing out the candles because "they detract attention from the stage." They wire the singer's microphone through an echo-chamber box, or provide a cordless shortwave mike that transmits to an FM receiver hooked up with the sound system...