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...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...
Yearn for immortality? Pine to be remembered till the last dingdong of doom? Want to be sure your memory remains green to every generation of your descendants? It's as easy as hifi. So writes Lester C. Worden in his book, A Living Legacy...
...retaliate. Had the 20% tax taken effect, the U.S. was prepared to raise its tax on the repatriated dividends of Canadian-owned subsidiaries operating in the U.S. to a prohibitive 30%. That would have crimped many far-reaching Canadian companies-including Moore Corp. (business forms), Clairtone Sound Corp. (hifi equipment), Hiram Walker and Seagrams-and might have forced some of them to move their headquarters...
Barry Goldwater still putters in his Phoenix saguaro cactus garden, where he has rigged heat lamps that glow automatically whenever freezing temperatures threaten. Nelson Rockefeller steals moments at his hifi, sits fascinated by the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman bands of the '30s. Dick Nixon thrills to the rough (but losing) play of New York's hockey Rangers. Maggie Smith sits with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number...