Word: hifi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spectator Sex. To some visitors, the trap door and the glass wall are the real symbols of Hugh Hefner's achievement. Bacchanalia with Pepsi. Orgies with popcorn. And 24 girls?count 'em, 24?living right overhead! Not to mention all those mechanical reassurances, like TV and hifi. It is all so familiar and domestic. Don Juan? Casanova? That was in another country and, besides, the guys are dead. Hugh Hefner is alive, American, modern, trustworthy, clean, respectful, and the country's leading impresario of spectator...
...long-suffering parents who must endure yet another "likely winner," some consolation can be found when A Groovy Kind of Love [April 22] blares forth from the hifi. It's really part of a practice rondo by Muzio Clementi...
...operate a first-class hi-fi set, a man once had to have the patience of Job, the funds of Croesus and the genius of Edison. In order to find just the right amplifier (power unit), preamplifier (the one with all those knobs), turntable (where the records spin), tuner (hifi for FM radio) and speakers, he had to compare the wares of a large range of component part companies, shell out as much as $1,500, and spend as long as a week hooking all the parts together. The only alternative was a cheap portable phonograph that sounded as tinny...
...light hand. "I direct by invisible authority," he says. "If things are running right, I don't interfere." He keeps in touch by flying from plant to plant in his private twin-engine Beechcraft, relaxes in his Poona home by listening to Western classical music on a stereo hifi...
Endowed with virtually unlimited resources and free dom, Bell Lab scientists have made such major breakthrough discoveries as radio astronomy, magnetic-tape recorders, hifi, and the most important invention since World War II, the transistor. Thanks to the transistor...