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...copying machines will turn out 10 billion or more copies in 300,000 U.S. offices this year; by 1970, they will be producing 25 billion copies, and the industry's sales will top $1 billion. SCM President Emerson Mead predicts that desktop copiers will eventually become so compact and inexpensive that many a secretary will have one right next to her typewriter. His confidence in the future market for such time-savers is one reason that SCM has dropped out of the carbon-paper business...
...Sour Notes. At last week's annual High Fidelity Music Show at Manhattan's Trade Show Building, there was a raft of compact all-in-one hi-fi units that cost between $200 and $400 and almost never sound a sour note. With two bookshelf-sized stereo speakers and one compact changer-amplifier unit, the new small-fi's can fit almost anywhere, be operated by the wife and the kids, and still give Dad the kind of sound that he yearns...
...version, has a long Mustang hood and a Mustang-like dropped-off trunk lid. To the Mustang-styled Falcon Futura line, a new sports coupe has been added, with wide bucket seats, 14-inch wheels and the standard Mustang engine. The Chevy II, which G.M, almost abandoned when compact sales began slumping, is lower and wider...
Papa Topside. Built at a cost of $850,000, Sealab II is a 12-ft. by 57-ft. steel cylinder that houses a well-equipped scientific and medical labo ratory, a compact galley and a dining area with bunks lining the walls. Standing by on the surface is a support barge linked to Sealab by an umbilical cable for power and communications. From the barge, Navy Captain George F. Bond, 50, whom the aquanauts call "Papa Topside," bosses the exercise, chats with them by intercom and observes them by closed-circuit television...
Unlike regular TV, Videx does not require line-of-sight transmission, and it uses more compact equipment than ordinary TV. Banks are already employing the system to flash check signatures from branches to the main office for verification. The U.S. Weather Bureau sends weather maps and charts by Videx. The military has it too, but keeps the secrecy...