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...this, Bob Galvin skillfully built the broad diversification begun by his father. The company pioneered the transistor radio, now also manufactures auto alternators and ignitions, electronic speedometers, hi-fi consoles, and exotic semiconductors and solid state devices used to measure and control industrial operations. Last year it introduced a 23-in. rectangular color-TV tube, slimmer and more compact than previous round tubes; it expects to sell 100,000 this year, has jumped to third place in dollar volume of TV sales. "Once we identify ourselves with a field," says Galvin, "we make a determined effort to be dominant...
...acknowledged masterpiece was Mysterion," built by Ed ("Big Daddy ) Roth, who owns a shirt factory m May wood, Calif. One of the most revered fast-iron designers in the US Roth spent $12,000 putting together this machine monster. It has built-in hi-fi and television, huge maximum-traction tires behind and narrow motorcycle tires up front. Its two Ford Thunderbird engines develop 1,000 h p and every cylinder is wrapped in bright chrome...
...girl is engaging and a little eccentric. She talks like a hi-fi turned all the way up and left on all day. But what she says often has insight. "I was a nice girl in a nice family in a nice house in a nice town, and I ran away from home because I was unhappy," she says with no apparent sense of incongruity. She arrived in New York ("If you leave Baton Rouge, you don't go to Cleveland") and began working as a model on Seventh Avenue, but quit after two months. "The garment center...
Scientists are not sure what makes tin whiskers grow. They are slender crystals that seem to squirt out of the metal like toothpaste out of a tube. They grow fastest at 125° F., which is close to the temperature inside a home hi-fi set, but they grow well enough at average room temperature (70°), which is common in enclosed parts of spacecraft. Now a spacecraft with a faltering voice or an electronic brain that has become psychotic need not be given up for lost. Allowed a few days to grow, the little tin whiskers will make...
...commissioned the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute to prepare a new building code, which should give some relief. Says New York City Buildings Commissioner Harold Birns: "The authors of the present [1937] code had no concept of the cacophony produced without limit by a disharmonic symphony of radio, television and hi-fi sets, which now thoroughly inundates our apartment houses...