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Surprise Witness. With that, Bailey rested the defense of Patty Hearst, and Browning returned to the attack in his rebuttal. The prosecutor introduced a surprise witness: Zigurd Berzins, 32, an electronics technician and operator of the "Tweeter's n Woofer" stereo shop .in San Francisco. Berzins said that he had been entering the Hibernia Bank on the morning of April 15, 1974, when he heard a "metallic" noise behind him. Turning, he saw a woman, armed with an M-l carbine, kneeling on the pavement to pick up two ammunition clips and one or two cartridges. Seconds later, said...
Pierce ("Fat Daddy") Cofield, 48, a 340-lb. self-styled retiree, can bury them with the best. He is also a master woofer. "This is a golf course where a poor man can come and get wealthy," says one foe, trying to set up Fat Daddy for a fall. "Boy, you keep messing around with me," says Cofield, "and I'll make your pocket bigger than a rat hole...
Whether anyone actually sings along with the sing-along albums probably does not bother bearded Idea Man Miller. It is a little difficult to picture the sentimental householder warming up his woofer, dusting off his diamond needle, and joining in for an evening of mooed music. More likely, the nation's mature citizens are merely striking back at rock 'n' roll, buying the sing-alongs because they like listening to simple, straight songs...
...thought which holds that bullfight bores are more deserving of ball-bat anesthesia than jazz bores, but this school is wrong. A bullfight bore may re-enact Manolete's death spasms, but a jazz bore will replay the same Charlie Parker record, with contrapuntal commentary, until his woofer melts. The public ear has been grievously bent, and therefore any novel about jazzmen that is fresh, authentic and ungummed by cultism is an achievement...
Expensive equipment is not necessarily a guarantee against such hazards. But a good hi-fi system must include at least a turntable (price $60), a diamond stylus ($20) and magnetic cartridge ($15), a good amplifier ($100), and a loudspeaker system ($150) which now usually consists of at least one woofer (a speaker designed to reproduce low tones) and tweeter (high tones). Tweeters may be cones (sweet, not too brilliant), horns (plenty of highs and often tinny), or the newly developed electrostatic type, in which a flat sheet of metal foil moves in the open air. Most speakers still need...