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Rescue Ahead. Maybe. On the other hand, disks have been around since 1887, and music lovers are fondly accustomed to the pleasurable shape and fed of platter recordings. Besides, record companies have a heavy investment in disk recordings. But to go on gratifying the old record-buying public, manufacturers will probably have to come up with something that does not yet exist -a practical, marketable disk offering four-channel sound of quadrisonic tape. The technical problem-essentially how to squeeze four channels into one groove and then play them off again with high fidelity-has long seemed insoluble. Last week...
Linvill's "Opticon" (for Optical Tactical Converter) reflects an enlarged image of each letter onto a disk of light-sensitive transistors. The transistors, energized by the image, trigger a corresponding group of pins that vibrate in an outline identical to the printed letter. By lightly fingering the pins, the blind person can "see" the letter...
...models to $3,189 on the 1970 line. The company called the rise "modest" in view of much larger increases in the cost of labor and many materials. G.M. said that $38 of the $119 rise was for improved equipment, such as glass-fiber-reinforced tires, larger engines and disk brakes...
...stumble back into such poetic quagmires as "Who put the bomp in the bomp-ba bomp-pa bomp? Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam a-ding-dong?" or the 50-odd repetitions of sha-da-da-da-da in the song called Get a Job. Boston Disk Jockey Steve Seagull thinks that the new interest is a short-time summer thing that has something to do with this primitivism. According to Seagull, "Rock 'n' roll is perfect beach music-like it just says 'pizza stand, convertible and soft summer nights...
...addition to the flag, the astronauts left behind a number of mementos from the earth. There was a 1½-in. silicon disk bearing statements (reduced in size 200 times) by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, and words of good will from leaders of 72 different countries. The disk also bore a message from Pope Paul VI quoting from the Eighth Psalm, a hymn to the Creator...