Word: tape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many RCA pros bet that steady John Burns would wilt in the brightly lit world of entertainment. Instead, Burns outshone the lights. He boosted RCA's non-entertainment business by more than 30%, directed the company to new areas and products. Under Burns, RCA brought out its stereo tape-cartridge, the first successful one in the industry. Burns moved RCA strongly into circuitry, controls and computers. RCA has developed the first medium-sized, all-transistor computer, hopes to find a big market in paper-clogged Wall Street. Burns took over RCA's money-losing color-TV project...
...club-a small cabaret in Leningrad. The big surprise was how well up the Russians are on every U.S. style from old-time gutbucket New Orleans to brassy progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone." had everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Dave Brubeck and Sarah Vaughan. Poorer musicians who cannot...
...sharp-minded son of the Baptist preacher, recently kicked out of the state university for general bad character, volunteers for the rescue job. Isaac inches into the cave, but not before he has arranged for delivery of a tape recorder and enough food to satisfy a hillside full of hungry sightseers. His report, when he squirms out. ensures that the gawkers will come: Jasper is pinned down by a boulder. As rescuers start drilling to the roof of the cave, Isaac spiels out a professionally emotional account into his tape recorder and fires it off to a radio station.* Soon...
After convalescing for three months on his Virginia farm and in his Manhattan apartment from lung-cancer surgery, TV-Radio Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, paused in San Francisco on his airborne way to Hawaii. A voluntary exile from show business since his operation, Godfrey will tape some Waikiki Beach sequences in Honolulu for release on CBS-TV this fall...
...tour indeed had its trials. Despite a handsome time advantage in filing-seven hours in Moscow, eleven in Novosibirsk-many dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...