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...college-age jazz lover who was raised on Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton and plenty of joyful foot tapping, and who right now has Pee Wee Russell and John Coltrane stacked on the same record changer, I feel that TIME has quietly scored a real triumph in its recent jazz reporting [June 28]. Congratulations on exposing the hippies and the pretensions of John Lewis, Paul Winter and the rest of the "concert jazz" set. NEIL STILLINGS Appleton...
...British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof glass counters, the new Hang Seng building is an aluminum-and-glass monument to the ability of Chinese businessmen to ride out shifting political tides. In 30 tumultuous years. Hang Seng has grown from a modest gold changer with capital of $21,000 to Hong Kong's biggest Chinese-owned bank, with assets of $63 million...
...makers, any new sales idea is as good as gold. Last week Magnavox Co. announced one that it hopes will win nuggets of customer good will: a ten-year unconditional guarantee on its diamond stylus phonograph needles. The guarantee was possible because of the development of an automatic record changer with a tone arm that rests so lightly on records that the company says both needle and record will last longer...
...Bill Changer. The first automatic device to make change for paper currency, long a vexing problem to vending-machine operators, was announced by Chicago's A.B.T. Manufacturing Corp. The table-model machine changes $1 bills by scanning the bill through six holes with photoflood lights, registering the beams on a light-sensitive surface. The machine recognizes and rejects counterfeits, foreign currency and bills of wrong denominations. It can be modified to handle $2, $5 or $10 bills. Estimated price when it goes on the market in the spring...
...labors of Victor engineers. The package sells for a luxurious $80, a price that does not preclude some annoying corner-cutting: the sonatas are crammed together, one starting wherever the previous one leaves off, as if the listener were going to stack the entire 32 sonatas on his changer and run them through chronologically...