Word: phonograph
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This discontent with the Iron Curtain is shown by the considerable circulation in Russia of books, phonograph records, and other items supposedly forbidden. The black market thrives on such goods. Every Sunday morning on the Kuznetsky Most Street in Moscow, for instance, there is a black market in books. There it is easy to pick up copies of books in short supply, especially western ones in Russian translations, such as the works of Dickens. Other goods, like cloth and clothing, cars, and theater tickets can also be purchased through the black mahket with enough money...
...collection at least the size of a House library's and several phonograph machines would be desirable to start Lamont's new service, McNiff indicated. One of the rooms or a special area would be set aside for the new collection. The Woodbury Poetry Room would continue to house only poetry, ballad, and drama records...
...hard for the government to prove, but some evidence existed. In Uruguay a fortnight ago, his private secretary, Luis Radeglia, who had flown in from Panama, was detained and found to have tape recordings of Peron speeches, presumably for broadcasts to the homeland. In Buenos Aires Peronistas were peddling phonograph records labeled as tangos but really pep talks by Peron...
...commend TIME on its story about our friendly competitor, Louis Marx. You intimate that Marx "knocked off" our best-selling Robert the Robot by meeting our price and adding a battery motor. In order to meet our $6 price, Marx eliminated from his robot the phonograph recording which permits our Robert to talk. It says, "I'm Robert the Robot, the mechanical man. Drive me and steer me wherever...
Hard Mechanics. The movement toward acoustic sharpness and clarity was strengthened by FM radio and hi-fi phonograph reproduction. People who have learned their music via hi-fi complain, when they hear live symphony orchestras for the first time, that the music is too soft and not brilliant enough. Veteran musicians, on the other hand, complain that hi-fi sound is mechanical and unreal. Sound Engineer Bolt, aware that taste in sound changes, believes that many people today do not want merely faithful reproduction but actually a new sound...