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...craze, and a bit of incredibly bad timing. Hy-Gain began making the compact communications units about four years ago, and raced to sales of $96.8 million in 1976. Responding to public interest in CB, the Federal Communications Commission in July of that year authorized new 40-channel sets that could be sold after Jan. 1, 1977. Hy-Gain and other makers slashed prices on the old 23-channel sets, but the public preferred to wait for the new models. Result: Hy-Gain had to buy back from dealers $12 million to $14 million worth of 23-channel equipment...
Despite the presence of reporters from The Boston Globe and Boston Herald American and cameras from Channel 7 News hoping to witness the latest exploits of Harvard freshman sensation Bobby Hackett, the Crimson provided little entertainment as they needed only a marginal effort to bury the surprisingly weak Brown team...
...than triple the present figure. The N.E.B. makes loans and grants to industries strapped for investment capital. Benn's scheme is opposed by Labor moderates and the Confederation of British Industry; both see it as promoting further government intrusion in private industry. Yet some way must be found to channel oil revenues toward the modernization of industry if Britain is to meet consumer demand and remain competitive in world markets...
These days that image can best be found on one network, ABC, on a single night, Tuesday. The schedule is the apotheosis of prime-time entertainment: viewers can spend three hours in front of the set without changing the channel and see the most popular series back to back. The evening begins with Happy Days, a sitcom about teen-age kids in '50s Milwaukee that is now No. 2 in the Nielsens. Next is TV's highest-rated series: Laverne & Shirley, a Happy Days spin-off about two female beer factory workers who also live...
...posterity--or at least until summer reruns--with the most heralded new gift idea of the season, the videotape recorder. These miracles of modern technology allow the average masochist to tape the show he's watching, one he'd like to be watching on another channel, and even one that's on while he's away. Some...