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...softly shadowed bedroom clicked on at 7:30 sharp, and the sleepers in the twin beds stirred slightly to the slushy beat of Mantovani and Softly as in a Morning Sunrise. The husband got up first to put on the coffee and slip a record on the hifi. As his wife relaxed for a few minutes more, planning her day, she could just hear the treacly organ notes of Music for Meditation dripping from the living-room Bozak...
Most of us complain about high taxes; maybe they keep us from getting that current model car, color TV, or hifi, but these things are luxuries, not necessities. If part of the tax money goes to foreign aid and helps bring some ragged, hungry child in another land a few necessities, we are proud...
...Last week Hot Shoppe Owner J. Willard Marriott branched out with another sort of monument-one of the world's largest motels. Sprawling along seven Potomac-side acres beside busy U.S. 1, the $5,000,000 motel has 370 wall-to-wall carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome prints, then drive straight to their rooms, guided by a bicycle-mounted bellhop, without once stepping out of their cars...
...reason is that records are cheaper ($1.98 to $3.98 for a long-player v. $5.95 in 1954) and technically better than ever, are being played on phonographs that are cheaper (less than $100 for a hifi) and better than ever...
...acoustics-conscious as never before since the advent of hifi, Kresge Auditorium is becoming something of a test case...