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...There is a Hollywood drug scene," says John Randell, director of a drug-abuse clinic for the wealthy in Century City. "But it is not just Hollywood. It is IBM and 3M. Wherever you find affluence, you'll find drug abuse." According to Randell, neither the recession nor the drug-related troubles of the famous have lessened the demand for coke. "The economy has had no effect," says Randell. "If anything, it makes using drugs more desirous, since people want to escape the pressure of the bad times." Incidents like the death of Belushi can have a perverse effect...
...standard, whose ratings are similar to the previously used American one, ASA.) The company's most popular color print film, Kodacolor II, has a rating of 100. Kodak and several rivals, including Europe's Agfa-Gevaert Group, the Japanese Fuji Photo Film Co. and Minnesota's 3M Co., produce less popular, and more expensive, print films with 400 ratings...
...innovative technology, Selecta Vision is essentially a phonograph that uses a mechanical stylus to play prerecorded movies. Its costly debut obscured the second type of videodisc: the infinitely more versatile laser-vision disc, designed for the videodisc player introduced by Magnavox in 1978. Manufactured by Pioneer, Sony and the 3M Co., the laser-vision disc makes flexible interaction possible...
...contract was awarded in 1979 to Siegel & Gale, a New York City consultant organization that has rewritten and redesigned hundreds of legal forms and loan applications for such companies as Citibank, 3M and Pitney Bowes. Working with firms specializing in accounting, behavioral research and readability, Siegel & Gale came up with forms designed for the convenience of the taxpayer rather than the tax collector. The typeface is Franklin Gothic for the main heads, the same headline type used in this magazine. The text type is Century Schoolbook, a highly legible face that was developed more than 60 years ago. The designers...
DIED. Richard G. Drew, 81, Minnesota-born inventor who in 1930, as a laboratory assistant for what is now the 3M Co., combined a glue and glycerin stickum with a strip of transparent cellophane to form Scotch tape; in Santa Barbara, Calif...