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...week set a working timetable for its hearings and dispatched messengers bearing official requests for information to the President, the Secretaries of State, Energy and Commerce, the Attorney General, and the directors of the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency. The committee is requesting an avalanche of material: tape recordings, diaries, logs and records of telephone calls and personal conversations, appointment calendars, newspaper articles and letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Have You Done, Billy Boy? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...movie title says, "Can't Stop the Music," at least on city streets. A cacophony of portable radios and tape players blares from every corner, park bench, bus and subway. But now Sony has come out with a sidewalk stereo that is not a noise polluter. About the size of a paperback book, the 14-oz. Walkman is a cassette player that can be hung from the neck, strapped to a belt or simply carried in a pocket. Attached is a headset with half-dollar-size earphones that provide true stereo sound. Best of all, the Walkman (just under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds & Trends | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...eventually wants to cry out with the chorus: "Is it really to go on like this forever?" Yet there is a moving finale. Soprano Janet Northway, as a soul who is dying into a new life, slowly ascends a series of platforms, singing an eerily ecstatic duet with a tape recording of her own voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bold Dissonance at Santa Fe | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...minor concerto at the season's final event offered by Concerts in Black and White, where Black conductor Wendell English leads the multiracial orchestra. The concert was the best by the orchestra this year. And Moye's performance was impeccably elegant--an impression confirmed when WGBH broadcast a tape of the program the next month. Regrettably, none of the Boston newspapers reviewed the event, but a musical genius like Moye ought to be brought back soon--by someone...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Black String Musicians: Ascending the Scale | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

...hardware and tools come growing requests for instructions. Says Michael J. Montalbano, president of Houston's Retail Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association: "People don't know anything about what they're doing." A common novice mistake is to use a piece of string as a measuring tape. Once at the lumberyard, the string starts to stretch and the would-be woodworker either goes back home or ends up with a board that is too long. Thus the black thumb rule at most home-repair centers: $5 worth of advice with every $1 in sales. Last winter Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Sound of America Hammering | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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