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Once downstairs, the hi-fi set goes on, and Adams reads the morning papers while Rachel prepares breakfast (fruit, two eggs and-he thinks-Sanka). He is at the White House desk, emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the U.S., by 7:30, plunging deep into the stack of papers that never seems to diminish. The rest of the day is accurately crowded: conferences, sometimes as many as three at a time, with Adams circulating among them; a parade of visitors; dozens of telephone calls; and, always, papers and more papers. Generally, Adams takes time out only...
Then, as the crowd closed in and handed him a bouquet, he beamed, "Well, bless yo' HI' pointed heads...
Special cops were on duty to untie traffic snarls converging on a San Fernando Valley mansion near Hollywood. The Yuletide cynosure: a rooftop Santa Claus, made of bamboo, hammering away at a wrought-iron piano garnished with a twinkly candelabra, while loudspeakers blared hi-fi recordings of the schmalziest music on the far side of Bethlehem. Beamed the spectacle's beamish mastermind, Liberace: "I just love Christmas...
Hard Mechanics. The movement toward acoustic sharpness and clarity was strengthened by FM radio and hi-fi phonograph reproduction. People who have learned their music via hi-fi complain, when they hear live symphony orchestras for the first time, that the music is too soft and not brilliant enough. Veteran musicians, on the other hand, complain that hi-fi sound is mechanical and unreal. Sound Engineer Bolt, aware that taste in sound changes, believes that many people today do not want merely faithful reproduction but actually a new sound...
...some of the Air Force scientists' most spectacular achievements have been accomplished there. From a tall steel tower Aerobee rockets scream into the sky, carrying instruments to explore the boundaries of space. Sixty Aerobees have been fired, carrying 150-lb. payloads to 70 miles. The new Aerobee-Hi (two have been fired) carries the same load to 150 miles. The Aerobees are research rockets, not weapons, but Holloman also tests moderate-range guided missiles...