Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet nights lying at anchor in secluded coves. If the new yachtsman...
Useful Frills. Taped announcements already do everything from saying a prayer to giving out the movie schedule. And now the recordings are heading for homes. Newly elaborated devices will answer the owner's phone with a taped message from him and record callers' messages, then play them back to the missing owner even when he calls in from outside. Unlike answering services, which suffer from human manning, the machines never miss a call, never foul up a message, and are never rude...
...rival, for about $400 and up, depending on the number of frills. Robosonics' latest is a $700 version which will take up to six hours of messages, aimed at firms like meat wholesalers, who can thus collect overnight orders. R.S.V.P. is bringing out a model which allows the owner to call in and change his own recorded message. Tentative price...
Diverted Thief. The answering machines are only mildly Buck Rogerish compared with Marcom Inc.'s call diverter. A thumb wheel is set with the number where the owner will be, and incoming calls are transferred there. Lawyer Melvin Belli has one, switches early-morning calls to the hamburger stand where he breakfasts. And since the call is transferred without the caller's being any the wiser, the device should be a boon to wayward husbands or junior executives who have slipped out for a quick pick...
...disasters, also frequently carries such luminaries as Bob Hope, Barry Goldwater and Jackie Kennedy. Every weekday a Cessna 172 floatplane from Lake Union Air Service whisks Chip Prentice, 7, between his island summer home on Puget Sound and school in Seattle 15 miles away. Cost to his dad, the owner of two manufacturing firms: $16 a day, round trip. When Winthrop Rockefeller or ex-Labor Tycoon David McDonald travels from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, he makes the trip by air taxi in 30 minutes (v. two hours by auto) at a cost...