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...apiece. Towers or high antennas are also needed, and before they are ready to broadcast, many TV hams spend as much as $3,000 incorporating such zazzy features as wide-angle lenses. All of them are also ham radio operators by necessity, to supply the audio. And their shacks-the hams' word for any space containing their equipment -are loaded with dial-studded cabinets, control panels, cameras and receiving sets. Ham TV is assigned a limited range in the ultra-high frequencies, but ordinary TV sets can be modified to receive the ham signals...
...were studying at Stanford University under famed Electrical Engineering Professor Frederick E. Terman. They set up their company in the shadow of Stanford to be near Terman and Stanford's vast research services. Their first sale of any consequence ($489.60) came when Walt Disney bought nine Hewlett-developed audio oscillators for the sound effects of Fantasia. "Bill and I did everything from design to sales in those days," Packard recalls. "I'm afraid our standards of quality weren't quite what they...
Santa Cruz will have a core area with a ' library, science labs and audio center beaming TV lectures to surrounding colleges. The colleges, each with its own small library, classrooms, dormitories and dining halls (coats and ties at dinner), will rise in clusters of two or three at various distances from the core Liberal arts will dominate the university especially art, music, writing and foreign languages (sparked by the nearby Army Language School). But starting with Cowel College in 1965, each school will also take its own academic tack-social science for Cowell, natural science, economics and public affairs...
...compete with pop tunes in record stores, set up a Family Record Club that now accounts for half his business. Members can buy a religious record every month for $3.98 (or $4.98 for stereo); if they buy two, they get a third free. Another McCracken plan is the Audio Record Program: 600 salesmen across the country peddle a five-album. 34-record collection that offers, according to McCracken, "everything a family needs for proper inspiration, worship and education"-all for $189.95. "When they see how we can answer their religious needs, price is no object," McCracken says. Net sales...
Word Records has progressed far beyond The Game of Life, although it is still included in the Audio Record Program. Among Word's releases: Ethel Waters singing religious songs for children, the choir of New York's St. John the Divine Cathedral singing Episcopal Church music. Next month Word will offer a seven-LP, six-hour set of Theologian Karl Earth lecturing on evangelical theology. McCracken's current bestseller: the world-traveling Orphans' Choir from Korea. He recently started another record club, which will feature long-play sermons by Christian leaders such as Baptist Billy Graham...