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Jamming a chaw of Beech-Nut tobacco into his cheek, Larry Csonka jumped into a blue Chevrolet pickup truck and, with his older brother Joe at the wheel, bounced down a deeply rutted, brown dirt road to get a close look at 80 acres of Ohio potato and corn fields up for rent. "It's real good land," Joe said as they surveyed the rolling countryside in the fresh fall air. "It's got good drainage and you can see the good crop growing here." Larry nodded. "We can use the land," he said. "Let's take...
...time is the Depression, and these bouts are appropriately called pickup matches. They are not staged in rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles...
...engineers opted for a relatively simple turntable. A major innovation is the metal-coated record, which is covered with a spiral groove only 0.00018 in. wide-less than a tenth as thick as a human hair. In ordinary LPs, the groove encodes the sound; as the pickup needle runs over its "hills and dales," the needle is forced to vibrate at the same frequencies as the recorded sound. Translated into electrical pulses and amplified, the vibrations drive the loudspeaker. By contrast, RCA's SelectaVision does not depend on mechanical vibrations. The disc's groove serves only to guide...
Gerry Moshell and his fall pickup orchestra, the Kirkland Concertgebouw, will deliver the well-loved Grieg piano concerto and Mendelssohn violin concerto Saturday night. Starring will be the dynamic violin-piano duo of Lynn Chang and Richard Kogan, who will also perform solo works of Chopin and Tartini. At 8, with a repeat performance at 11; Kirkland...
...financial squeeze stems from a conflict of goals. Under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, the U.S.P.S. must operate as a public service, so postal authorities regard themselves as being obliged to continue performing many uneconomic operations, such as delivering mail door-to-door instead of at a central pickup point. Yet the law also insists that the Postal Service attempt to be selfsupporting. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar is urging Congress to undertake a study to determine whether the U.S.P.S. needs an increase in the $920 million federal subsidy it now gets, the so-called public service payment...