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...Hi-Fi & Seat Belts. The President's flying White House is rigged for the best in comfort and communications. The President himself usually takes off facing forward at a desk in his private compartment; at his side is an ivory-colored telephone that is hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...
...Officially on active duty, military Rhodesmen draw full lieutenant's pay as well as the $2,100 annual Rhodes stipend. Attached to the U.S. embassy in London, they get cut-rate PX privileges. They can dress in well-groomed contrast to their colleagues; they can buy cars and hi-fi sets, live in tonier style than all but the richest bloods of wealthy Christ Church College. "You chaps," said an envious Briton, "are the heirs to Edwardian Oxford...
Early this year Bachelor Koufax was hampered by a sore shoulder that restricted him for five weeks to little more than pitching batting practice and lifting the arm of his hi-fi set (he likes Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky). Overall, he has a record of only 8-4. But with Koufax now at his blinding best (31 strike-outs -in his last two games) and crossfiring Don Drysdale leading the league in strikeouts (207), the second-place Dodgers have the fastest staff in the majors as they settle down for the September stretch fight with the Giants. To prove the point...
Today Sir Donald would have to take another reading. Baroque is a growing fashion, so popular that chamber music groups, armed with a baroque repertory, have popped up in towns from coast to coast, and record companies are cashing in on the boom. With hi-fi to bring out the delicate riches, the companies have issued no fewer than 173 baroque chamber works this year alone. Bach and Handel get their full share and there is also a growing list of lesser Italian composers and "forgotten geniuses" for the ordinary music lover to hear and enjoy...
...graciousness is under pressure, she soon discovers. Her father, silver-haired Preston Woodcock III. is juggling martinis instead of balancing the family paper company's books. Her mother is outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara...