Word: stereos
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Miniature stereo tape players tune up a silent revolution...
...upward in imaginary conducting motions. No doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...
...infrastructure-its network of roads rails, ports and other vital public services. If trains and trucks are slowed by poor tracks and roads, farmers and manufacturers cannot get their products to market on time, and the delay shows up in the prices of everything from soybeans to stereo sets. If city sewers and subways are already strained beyond their limits companies may be reluctant to expand and hire new workers, since they may not be able to get to work. Warns the Council of State Planning Agencies in a disturbing new report entitled America in Ruins: "The deteriorated condition...
...center, which sold stereo equipment and appliances for the last two years at 58 Boylston St., owes $12,000 to 108 customers--including five Harvard undergraduates--who made downpayments but never received their merchandise...
...American subsidiary, Reel Pleasure Unlimited, is distributing a portfolio of hard-core movies to 46 theaters across the U.S. In keeping with her reputation for peddling only top-of-the-line pornography, the initial release, Extremes, is the first X-rated film to feature four-channel Dolby stereo...