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...Larrocha struggled valiantly with the stiff action of a Steinway at a recital near Washington, D.C., after a local dealer's technician denied her request for a minor adjustment, insisting that the instrument was in "perfect condition." Misha Dichter, 27, still smarts from the rebuff of a tuner in St. Paul who responded to his complaint about the house piano: "Listen, young whippersnapper, Liberace played it and he liked...
...fairness, the distilled silliness of the plot does not aid her. Debbie is Irene O'Dare, an Irish-American piano tuner who lives in a Manhattan Ninth Avenue flat with her widowed mother (Patsy Kelly). On a tuning job at a Long Island mansion, she meets Donald Marshall (Monte Markham), heir to a family fortune. He is so impressed with her commercial savvy that he makes her a partner in a couturier venture sponsoring a man named Madame Lucy (George S. Irving). Love calls; the pair answers. Good night, Donald. Good night, Irene...
Delegates from several unions bitterly told stories of "runaway" plants that backed up Meany's contentions. These included RCA's TV plant that moved from Memphis to Taiwan, as well as Bendix of York, Pa., and Kollsmann Industries' Wisconsin TV-tuner operation, both of which relocated in Mexico. AFL-CIO economists cite Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showing that the number of U.S. workers that theoretically would be required to produce all goods imported into the U.S. has increased by at least 700,000 (to 2.5 million) since 1966. The implication is that if imports were held...
Most of Cerf's puns and gags are better than bathroom humor-but not much. He tells about the fellow named Kissinger who had his name changed so many times that soon all his friends were asking "I wonder who's Kissinger now?" And about the piano tuner named Oppernockety, who never returns to fix a bad job because Oppernockety only tunes once. Or the Indian chief who was delighted to learn that his two youngsters had been invited to join the yacht club; the chief had always wanted to see his red sons in the sail...
...transistorized) portables that looked like luggage when closed, sounded almost like full symphonies when open. Harman-Kardon added an AM-FM radio, managed to cram everything into one chassis to the tune of $399. KLH's latest model, the Twenty-Plus, converts both the two speakers and the tuner-amplifier-changer unit into small tables by placing them on pedestals, covering them with an assortment of fabrics...