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...Witco Chemical was blacklisted after it bought a chemical firm that had an executive who owned a piece of an Israeli oil company. The Arabs offer reinstatement to firms that stop their dealings with Israel, but the Israelis have their own ways of exerting pressure. West Germany's Grundig Radio last month announced plans to pull its operations out of Israel, quickly reneged when Israel said that it would cancel all Grundig import licenses in reprisal...
...Weigt has bestowed membership on a sprinkling of industrial and show business high society, claims as his most illustrious guest aging Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic wizard. Gina Lollobrigida has membership card 101. Other card carriers include German Stars Curt Jurgens and Winnie Markus, Tape-Recorder Tycoon Max Grundig, onetime Boxing Champ Max Schmeling, Film Producer Ilse Kugaschweski, and one registered aristocrat: Friedrich Carl Prince Fugger von Babenhausen...
...impossible to hear any but strictly binaural sounds from the lavishly designed exhibition rooms of this year's New England High Fidelity Music Show. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the show featured all conceivable kinds of music reproduction equipment, from the standards of Bogen, Scott and Electro-Voice to the Grundig, Grado and Glasser-Steers para-phernalia. Even radio stations such as WXHR maintained promotional booths featuring such novelties as FM car receivers...
...high-frequency radios, in 1951 its first pushbutton tuning. In 1953 he startled West Germany by selling a TV set for less than 1,000 marks ($238). In 1954 he brought out the first tape recorders priced under 500 marks, sold 100,000 of them in two years. Then Grundig introduced his small, low-priced "Stenorette" tape dictating machine ($169.50 in the U.S.), sold 100,000 in 18 months...
...success Grundig offers a simple explanation: "I guess I just have the right nose," i.e., he knows what kind of goods will open pocketbooks from Fürth to Fort Worth...