Word: hifi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Ayer expects to sell his new purchases to charter and cargo lines, will keep some planes himself and lease them to carriers for peak seasonal loads. For corporations, he will do a Convair over completely (bar, hifi, etc.), raise its fuel capacity to give it 50% greater range, put it in anyone's hangar for $385,000. Abroad, he is counting heavily on regional lines that cannot yet afford jets, but need better planes than they now have...
...most convincing argument against government intervention is the industrial lessons of the last few years. Booms in hifi, boating, photography, travel, frozen and gourmet foods, all come from relatively new things that tempted consumers to part with their cash. This is the real road to growth, the innovation of exciting and useful new products and industries that Government alone cannot start. It can only provide the incentive for business to improve itself. As Harvard's Slichter says: "You can't expand without demand for the product. We need less sales talk, less hot air and better quality...
...then quits for Mexico City's typically heavy (steak and trimmings), typically drawn-out (two hours) dinner. Back at work at 6 or thereabouts, he works into the evening, then spends an hour or two in a smoking jacket with a detective story or Beethoven on stereophonic hifi. He likes to play canasta and watch fights...
...portrait of a pretty girl. The artist who painted it is a onetime photo-reconnaissance officer named John Merton. He sat his subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl...