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SOLAR eclipses are one of nature's most fascinating events -and also one of the most dangerous for observers. As more and more of the solar disk is blotted out, the sky darkens, and it becomes easier to gaze directly at the sun. While the visible light lessens, however, the pupils of the viewer's eyes dilate, allowing infra-red radiation from the still uncovered crescent of the sun to focus on his retinas. Although he feels no pain, the infra-red can quickly burn his retinas, causing irreparable damage to his vision. To avoid eye injury, medical...
Ampex quickly won the largest share -as much as 40%-of a market that last year had estimated retail sales of $400 million. Tapes account for 25% of the sales of the entire recorded-music business, up from 3% or 4% in 1966. Though the sound of new disk records is generally thought to be better, the quality of tapes tends to last much longer because they use no needles. The recorded tapes have become the fastest-growing segment of Ampex's domestic business. In eight years under President William Roberts, the company's sales have climbed from...
...looks like an ordinary beanbag, orange, pink or candy-striped. But when a concealed button is tapped, a battery-operated three-inch plastic disk turns on, and there is no turning off the heehaws for half a minute. "We sell happiness," says Sammy Kay, vice president of the Gund Manufacturing Co. and chief purveyor of the laughing bag, a brand of happiness that costs about $5. Gund has been putting laughing boxes inside stuffed animals since 1954, but it wasn't until this year that the company sent them out to go it alone. "Our first buyers," Kay reports...
...back to his roots in country music and still move his own music forward. De Ole Folks at Home, the companion disk to Giant Step, proves as much. The very title gives you pause: it promises an instant replay of an immense tradition. But some of the work he does in that tradition is original and versatile. In "A Little Soulful Tune" he fashions a complete. song with hands and voice alone...
Petrie has a ruptured disk in his back, and it was thought that he might miss the entire season, probably costing his team the Ivy title. In a copyrighted story two weeks ago, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported that he would definitely miss the entire season. The reporter learned this through an interview with Petrie's mother...