Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stereo prices can be cut. Today a stereo recording of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony costs a whopping $18.95; the same symphony on LP disk sells for $3.98. Much of the basic cost goes into raw materials; magnetic tape is more expensive than the disk's vinyl, and it takes longer to produce tape duplicates than to press disk duplicates...
...brain-children. Built on the "geodesic principle" of interlocking triangles, the dome is a hardwood and pressed plastic affair which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...
...climb into this Double Play-dome, seal themselves in with the plastic cover, and roll down Linden or Holyoke Street to the river, before hatching into the sun. Matrix Structures Inc. has the answer for spring escapism: Back to nature via the egg--a geodesical one with a tough vinyl plastic shell...
...than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls" not only for the classics but for the moderns. TIME'S Music editor listens to the vinyl outpourings, from two dozen record companies, selects the best and most interesting items for review about once a month. This week's group ranges from Mozart to that aging musical bad boy, Henry Cowell. See Music, New Records...
...survey of 1,000 executive offices in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, the Guild found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...