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...campers would want to be pampered and gradually switched the product line from spartan travel trailers and portable dwellings mounted on pickup trucks to more luxurious box-shaped, selfpropelled vehicles. Winnebago now crams its 13 models with such gadgets as eye-level ovens, built-in vacuum cleaners, showers, color TVs and sleeping quarters for as many as eight campers...
...large increase in the student and transient population in Cambridge has aggravated another problem--crime. Cambridge's densely populated, high turnover areas of young people attract burglars from all over the Boston area. Robbers find the high quality stereos or TVs most young people own easy to make off with in this area where few people know their neighbors. George Powers, planning and research officer for the Cambridge City Police, said that burglaries are much less frequent in both the working class communities of East and North Cambridge and in the wealthy Brattle St. area. "These are stable, family communities...
...American Newspaper Guild and to the City Editor. Then I was given directions to the men's room and to the copy paper cabinet, advice on how to use a telephone headset and was placed at an old green desk not far from the tables, phonebooks, radios, tvs, and telephones called the City Desk. It was very quiet in there that Sunday afternoon. I was putting all my new toys away and was wondering to whom I was supposed to give my daily Story Suggestions when an editor ambled over to my desk. He stopped in front of the desk...
...Butterflies. Sarnoff's zeal to be first with color TV led him into an epic battle with William Paley's CBS. RCA developed a "compatible" broadcast method that could send color and black-and-white signals on special color TVs, but CBS, with a superior picture, won the Federal Communications Commission's license to proceed commercially. Sarnoff ordered his engineers back to their labs. Three years later, they produced a high-quality compatible system. The FCC reversed itself, and CBS lost a big round...
Dollar devaluation seems inevitable. It will not affect the domestic purchasing power of the dollar. But Americans will pay more for Volkswagens, Sony TVs, Givenchy dresses, Swiss watches and all other imports because the prices set for those goods in marks, yen and French and Swiss francs will be higher in terms of dollars. Similarly, the American travelers' dollars will buy less abroad, so the cost of tourism will rise. On the other hand, the foreign-money prices of American coal, computers, jet planes and other exports will drop. Eventually, the U.S. hopes, its exports will rise enough...