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...potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate residence, garden, and private herd of cows. Hakim himself has a house assessed at $22,200, plus a Volga auto, two motorbikes, a radio-phonograph console, a tape recorder and several TV sets. Of two peasants who protested his running of the farm, one was badly beaten, the other vanished. Demanding a "full investigation," the newspaper Country Life charged that happy Hakim escaped punishment because he was a close crony of the district...
...York's Decca Records, Inc. approved Wasserman's offer of MCA stock worth an estimated $50 for every share of Decca stock. The proposed merger, which has yet to be passed on by stockholders-or the Justice Department-seemed to confirm Hollywood's suspicions. Besides making phonograph records, Decca owns 88% of Universal Pictures...
Consciousness, he said, is like a phonograph record on which the conceptual mind takes up only five or six grooves. The other grooves on the record can be reached by cultivation of "internal experience," he suggested...
...softer." This older, mellower Barth seems eager only to get on with the fourth section of Volume IV of Dogmatics. At his stucco house on Basel's Bruderholzallee, day begins around 8, when Barth's wife, or his longtime secretary. Charlotte von Kirschbaum, tiptoes to the phonograph and puts on a record. The music that serves as his alarm clock is always by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose work Barth describes as a "constant of my existence." "When the angels praise God in Heaven," Barth once wrote, "I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart...
Newest items in stereo gadgetry: > For the listener who wants to taste stereo's delights on the cheap, here is the Pioneer Stereoscope. A simple, nonelectronic stereo system that requires no amplifiers, wires or speakers, it operates like a doctor's stethoscope attached to a special phonograph tone arm by plastic tubes...