Word: hi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he also trekked through the ruins of Carthage, briefed viewers on Tunisia's tortuous history, and relayed some of the excitement attending Bourguiba's 54th birthday celebration. Poking around the minarets and parapets of old Tunis, the NBC cameras caught some absorbing glimpses: the crowds chanting "Hi Yah Bourguiba" in the teeming souks and streets, the veiled Bedouin women greeting their first President with eerie, unearthly noises made, explained Huntley, by "bending their tongues back over their soft palates and screaming-making the tongues vibrate." The interview with Bourguiba was boiled down to 35 minutes...
...station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...
...iron oxide. Its name: magnetic tape. On its surface a fantastic amount of sights, sounds and statistical data can be electromagnetically recorded. The tape can be played over and over again without wearing out, can be erased and used again for new recordings. Tape recorders are challenging phonographs for hi-fi music; they fly in jet planes and guided missiles to record test data; in the first earth satellite, a tape recorder will read dozens of instruments and transmit the data to earth. Using magnetic tape, giant computers compile payrolls and forecast sales. Entire libraries and millions of legal documents...
...Kostelanetz, Paul Weston, Phil Spitalny and George Melachrino did some pioneering as early as the '40s, were later joined by a host of others. TV's Jackie Gleason became such an adept mood picker that his Music for Lovers Only sold half a million copies. For the hi-fi convert whose interest was less in music than in matching his neighbors' woofers and tweeters, the gaudily packaged mood music was ideal: it filled the yawning silence, but was so innocuous that nobody had to listen...
...Hi-Fi Diamonds. The first diamond-point needles produced by a new, cost-cutting automated process were put on national sale by Walco Products, Inc. Walco will treble output to 3,000,000 needles a year, price them so low that makers of medium-priced hi-fi sets can afford to supply diamond needles as standard equipment. Retail price...