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Word: autostereo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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...volt Autostereo models, priced from $129 up, made and distributed in 14 states by former Used-Car Tycoon Earl "Mad Man" Muntz of Los Angeles. Designed only for playback with special tape cartridges, they take any prerecorded material from the Muntz Music Library. Senator Barry Goldwater bought one from his son Mike, who holds the Phoenix franchise. Comedian Jerry Lewis has cartridge copies made of scripts, learns his lines by Autostereo on the way to work. Sales have reached epidemic proportions, claims a Muntz spokesman. "We started selling to Continentals. Then we went to Cadillacs, Buicks, Fords and Chevrolets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: A Tape for the Road | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

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