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...past seven years, and Byrd wanted to find out why. In random sampling, investigators discovered that many families on relief had one TV set and that several had two. At one appliance store at least four persons on relief were buying expensive stereophonic phonograph sets on time. Of the cases reviewed, investigators found that 78% of the persons on general relief were really ineligible for aid, as were 57% of the mothers receiving checks for dependent children. Some case studies: A mother of four,receiving $169 a month on the claim that her husband had deserted her, had actually driven...
...lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records for the rest of the day." Arthur "hated it" but he also learned: "I mastered every [Lionel] Hampton solo...
...Liston's day is his public afternoon workout−as smoothly organized as a Broadway musical. The air is heavy with tension and dank with sweat; fans jam the 100-seat outdoor bleachers (at $1 a seat), and rock 'n' roll blares from a portable phonograph. Precisely at 2:30 p.m., Liston announces his arrival with an electrifying rat-a-tat on the lightweight "speed bag." He begins to shadowbox, sliding lithely about the ring, huge fists darting out at imaginary opponents. "Time!" calls a handler, and Liston begins to whale away in earnest at his sparring...
...young admirers and startling passers-by with sudden, gazelle-like leaps into the air. The night before he was to compete, Brumel sat in the Stem Hall lounge, feet propped up on an overturned wastebasket, watching Gunsmoke. Behind him. other Russians were learning the twist to a loud-blaring phonograph. Mildly annoyed, Brumel stood up, walked around his overstuffed armchair to the phonograph, and turned the volume down. Then he leaped clear over the chair, landed on his feet, and sank back with a satisfied smile. Commented one Russian: "Valery may not be the best athlete we have ever produced...
...orders. At that point, the old-line department stores decided that they had to do more than jeer at the discounters. No longer could a discounter send his customers over to a department store for free demonstration of an appliance or to a music store to listen to a phonograph record, confident that they would come back to buy at the discount price. More and more department stores began to match the discounters penny for penny on such competitive items as refrigerators, television sets, transistor radios and toys, using them as loss leaders and making up the difference on other...