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Retailers in the area contacted yesterday said they did not expect much of a change in Advent prices as a result of the move. "Their product was becoming noncompetitive," Robert Dollinger, assistant manager of Tech-HiFi on Boylston Street said yesterday, referring to Advent component price increases which resulted from increased manufacturing costs. "Now they should be able to hold prices at the present level," he added

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Advent Corporation Leaves Cambridge | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...Minneapolis. When working, Anderson likes to have Chopin on the hifi. When relaxing, he likes to stretch out on the floor in his shorts, drink beer and watch television. His wife admits, "It is hard to think of him as the Governor then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Minnesota: A State That Works | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Think Clean | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Small-Fi | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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