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...shade more acceptable than "blue," or hard-core pornographic movies. Pinkies can be shown legally to adult audiences, but this one had appeared without warning on TV screens in nearby homes when the hotel's closed-circuit video system accidentally converted a rooftop steel railing into a transmitting antenna. Police quickly zeroed in on the hotel and shut down the video system-but not before the incident became a cause celebre that pointed up the phenomenal rise in the use of pornographic video tape across Japan...
...first lesson from Nader and Co. is how to avoid buying a trouble-plagued car. Nader suggests that the cautious purchaser should steer away from delicate options like automatic speed controls, eyelid headlamp covers, power windows and power antenna-all of which have a high frequency-of-repair record. But heavy-duty suspension, says the book, is "a must, even for urban driving." The buyer should hire an outside mechanic to check over the car before accepting delivery from a dealer...
After Mariners 6 and 7 photographed Mars last year and went into perpetual orbits around the sun, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted an important test. Using NASA's giant 210-ft. Goldstone antenna in the California desert, they beamed powerful radio signals past the sun toward the little unmanned spacecraft. When they reached the Mariners some 250 million miles away, the signals were automatically amplified on board and transmitted back to earth. The entire round trip took only about 43 minutes, but the results may be momentous for all of physics. Last week...
...both corporations, calls for a price of $80.1 million. It includes AM and FM radio and VHF TV stations in Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Denver and San Diego, in addition to a UHF TV station in Bakersfield, Calif. (It does not include any of Time Inc.'s community antenna television franchises and operating systems, or its minority holdings in foreign broadcasting companies...
...result, the insurance company-which raised the station's annual premium from $750 to $2,200 after the first bombing-canceled its coverage. That move brought the threat of repossession of KPFT's surviving equipment. Other Houston stations became more leary than ever of sharing facilities and antenna towers with the Pacifica outlet...