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...scene is accompanied by an din on rival Fibber McGee's , the percussion including drums, cymbals, xylophone, woodblocks, ratchet, and everything but the kitchen . But Amram's songs are fine, including one that he had turned into 9 three-voice canzonet...
...battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...
...mpressive as the show itself is its young analyst-narrator, Charles Kuralt, 25, who wrote a human interest column for the Charlotte, N.C. News before CBS hired him. A deep-voiced Carolina Cronkite with more than a little Murrow in his bones, he has one of those low-ratchet, radioactive voices that sound like a roulette wheel stopping...
...Ratchet. Moreover, inflation may well be here to stay. Says Schultze: "A massive depression like that of the 19303 would surely break through the rigidities in the price-cost structure and force wage and price declines." But the U.S. economy of 1960 is so strongly committed to full employment and has so many built-in stabilizers that there is little chance of a big enough drop. The U.S. has managed to even out the sharpest swings in its economic cycle, but in so doing it has also put a "ratchet" under prices and costs, thus preventing them from going down...
...same way, wages are growing more and more rigid. They are on a ratchet, clicking steadily higher, but locked against any slippage downward. Despite the recession, there are so many escalator clauses, unemployment benefits, and automatic increases that wages this year are still going up (see State of Business). The belief that rising productivity will make up for wage increases, thus holding prices stable, has also proved false-at least in the short run. In 1957 wages jumped 4.5%, yet output per man-hour rose only 1.8%-and prices jumped 3%. The Government, with its farm subsidy and other...