Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, official surveillance organizations, such as the FBI, have expertly bugged rooms spotted through leading hotels. When they want to tune in on a guest, they ask the hotel management to steer him to one of these sonic studios. If the guest balks, an agent needs only a few minutes to sneak up and secrete several bugs in the room assigned the visitor; then a team of technicians moves into an adjoining room to set up listening and recording apparatus...
Arthur T. Telefiend turns on his new set. On the small screens, reading from the top down, he sees a hockey game, a Looney Tune, a guy looking out over Marlboro Country, George C. Scott, 800 yds. of Ronzoni spaghetti, four waltzing mice, and a lecturing professor. What will he choose...
...wants the hockey game and his wife wants Scott, according to Gernsback's plan, he presses a button that centers the hockey on the big screen; meanwhile, Mrs. Telefiend puts on a set of earphones that tune in to Scott. The children have additional ear phones with which to make their own choices. Everybody is happy...
This simple lyric, laminated to a catching tune, is on Billboard's list of the "Hot 100" singles, comfortably ahead of Tell Me Baby and catching up with Young and in Love. What it is doing in that league is anybody's guess. Its theme is not love, but development housing...
...world's biggest piano maker is not Steinway, Winter or Wurlitzer, but a relatively unknown Japanese company named Nippon Gakki that won its for tune during World War II by making airplane propellers. Nippon Gakki is one of Japan's most successfully diversi fied corporations, with 1963 sales of $99 million. It now makes motorcycles, bathtubs, glass-fiber skis, transistorized electric organs. But the company's most notable achievement is the recent success of its second oldest product line: pianos. Last week Nippon Gakki announced that it will build a modern $4,100,000 plant that will...