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...spend they do, on everything from FM stereo sets (52% of the families own one or more) to theater tickets (71% attend) to home power tools (58%). The average family avidly collects records (77%) and travels extensively (nine out of ten families took trips in 1965, 27% of them outside the country). Mr. Subscriber and his family enjoy all kinds of outdoor activity: three out of four swim, four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks...
...Last week in San Francisco, at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, a novel, three-dimensional fluoroscopy machine was displayed by General Electric. A complex welter of mirrors, polarizing filters, lenses, an image intensifier and a two-cathode X-ray tube (see diagram), G.E.'s Stereo Fluoricon shows a patient to his physician as a green 3-D image, "like a skeleton with its organs hung inside." Other X-ray machines and sonar beams have produced similar 3-D effects, but previous processes were too cumbersome or time-consuming to be easily utilized...
...record his favorite ballet music from Verdi's Sicilian Vespers and Rossini's William Tell. Bowes first hit on the tape-it-yourself idea while visiting a musician friend who was making a recording. He got fascinated with the possibility of filling in the gaps in his stereo-tape library with his own recordings, and when he learned that a symphony musician could be hired for $50.40 per day in Britain (v. $123.20 in the U.S.), he figured that it was a good buy. After all, there are psychiatric patients who pay that much just for one session...
...volume turned up to peak levels, it is difficult to tell if the horns are playing 1812 Overture or "Look out!" Though Safety Crusader Ralph Nader labels the tapes as "Just another step toward insulating the driver completely from the outside," the National Safety Council believes that stereo played at a normal volume is a tonic since "it helps keep the driver alert...
...route to the studio. Hundreds of players have been installed in powerboats and airplanes, as well as in funeral limousines, which broadcast hymns at the grave site. Meanwhile, back on the road, auto-tape buffs are happily decorating their windows with decals: "Ssh . . . I'm listening to stereo...