Word: disks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Panting Philosophy. In the beginning it was called Beatlemania. Today it is called Beatlemania. The phenomenon, moreover, now laced with wistful nostalgia and what passes for a sort of panting social philosophy, far transcends the domain of disk jockeydom and bedroom stereo. Would anyone in his right mind pay $17.50 for a ballpoint pen bearing the emblem of Grand Funk Railroad? In Atlanta, Beatles' pens are fetching that much-and even a kid with only 25?can acquire a Beatles bubble-gum card. Not to mention the lapel buttons, rings, mirrors, metal trays, T shirts and posters that variously...
...door slammed, and it was Reed Camfort, his roommate. Camfort strode purposely into the room, his L.L. Bean hiking boots crushing errant tablets into flour, grinding them into the carpet, leaving white spots. He walked over to the stereo, picked out a disk, set it down on the turntable and flipped switched. "The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard" flowed through the air. Reed had put the stylus down on "Mama Tried." The volume was set on seven...
...observing station beneath the clear skies of Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, and HCO owns a station beyond the polluted skies of Boston, in the town of Harvard, Mass. The equipment at HCO's station includes a large, optical telescope and a radiotelescope--a movable disk 84 feet across for receiving radio waves from sources in deep space. A reflecting telescope composed of six 72-inch-diameter mirrors should go into operation at SAO's Arizona station this summer, although in Fall 1975 completion of construction was expected by Fall 1976. The six mirrors, focused together by computer, will equal the light...
There may be a crucial aspect to the lawsuit that goes unmentioned in the plaintiffs' papers. MCA, with N.V. Philips, The Netherlands electronics giant, is developing a home-use video-disk-playing system that it feels could burgeon into a billion-dollar business. The MCA machine would be unable to record off the air. Says Schein: "The company that is suing us just happens to have a competing machine that only plays back prerecorded material...
...book of magic, however, but belonged to the visitors and one George Corneil. With little more than 10 minutes to go and Harvard in control but behind, Corneil picked up the puck out of a group of players behind the Crimson net and flashed in front, sneaking the disk between the post and the pad of a surprised Brian Petrovek. The rally was officially extinguished...