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Packard and William Hewlett, a Stanford classmate ('34), started the electronics company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 with a $600 stake. Their first sale of any consequence was to Walt Disney, who bought nine audio oscillators to help create the sound effect for Fantasia. With Hewlett as the original engineering brains and Packard as a fiercely dynamic manager, the company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare...
Today, only one pay system remains alive-but not well-in Hartford, Conn. When the viewer tunes in at night to station WHCT, the image on the screen looks like a shattered mirror, and the audio twitters like a rewinding tape recorder. Subscribers interested in the show dial a code number on an un scrambling device perched atop their set. Automatically, the picture and sound come in clear and loud, and a tape inside the decoding box totes up a charge of 50? to $1.50 a show. Every month, the tape is pulled out of the box as a statement...
...order pre-made films on almost any topic. In theory, a family equipped with EVR will become a self-contained educational center: Junior will study the sex life of grasshoppers (the subject Goldmark drolly demonstrated last week), Father will settle back for an evening of golf lessons or an audio-visual version of LIFE and Mother will sharpen her French through an EVR correspondence course. CBS has already drawn up a manufacturing agreement with Motorola, Inc., under which Motorola will turn out EVR for institutions in less than two years and for the public market by late...
Although the design has not been finalized, general interior space allocations now include lecture halls for 600, 450, 150, and 100 people. All these halls would be outfitted with modern audio-visual equipment that present science rooms lack...
...issue (at $.50, the Lampoon has at least as many laughs as 5 issues of the New York Times, though it's not as good for starting fires), or that every bit of subtlety inevitably leaves a trail of squashed jokes behind it (as the more-tasteless-than-ever Audio Lab ad on the back cover graphically shows, there are times when an appeal to animal emotions gets nauseating). But there does seem to be an inherent confusion of purpose in the Lampoon's approach to its role as "humor magazine." In most of this month's pieces, clever Poonies...