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...lines will have a new four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument panel. Price: less than...
...lead his private version of the good life. He has bought a three-bedroom home at 300 Lovers Lane in nearby Alamogordo, where he lives alone and lumps it. He refuses to own a television set ("I am not ready for intellectual suicide"). His principal indulgence is some excellent hi-fi equipment...
...effect, the state's case against Virginia Carroll in the shooting of Politician William F. Meade (TIME, April 7, 1952). He is usually home in suburban Bryn Mawr by about 7 p.m. for his ceremonial "B and B" (Brahms and bourbon). The Brahms comes from an elaborate hi-fi set and, during the music, Selby spends an hour or so reading his mail. Selby's three children have made occasional appearances on his television show, usually as a background audience, munching hot dogs and potato chips, washed down with milk. They are not particularly impressed-possibly because there...
Across the U.S. last week, music lovers were pulling themselves away from their after-supper TV and their hi-fi sets. Into private cars and public buses they loaded blankets, cushions and bottles of anti-bug lotions, and rode off to the local stadiums and amphitheaters. At about twilight, they plumped by the thousands on damp grass, slatted benches or cold concrete, and spent the evening straining to catch the sounds of distant fiddling, blowing or singing. In short, the U.S. outdoor music season was under...
...Argeo Quadri; Westminster). Composer Revueltas was a tragically short-lived Mexican (1899-1940) who wrote a few large and richly tinted works. This one is a fascinating, grunting, growling number that sounds like a bolero by Tarzan in bobbing ⅞ time. It is presented in Westminster's hi-fi "Laboratory Series," wrapped in a fancy plastic zipper bag, and accompanied by a second-by-second description that is good for testing ears and playback equipment. The disk includes Soviet Modernist Mossolov's once notorious Iron Foundry...