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From 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., loudspeakers mounted atop cars and trucks blare out the names of candidates. Men armed with bullhorns bellow party names on street corners, while the shouts of supporters assault the ears of those passing by. Japanese politicians have little choice but to woo votes with decibels: not only are television and newspaper ads forbiddingly expensive, but candidates are prohibited from making their pitches door to door. So deafening was the din during last June's campaign for seats to the Upper House that a Yokohama group called the Association of Sufferers from Noise urged citizens...
...biggest future payoff for IBM is likely to come in the field of office automation. The key to the so-called paperless office will be computerized networks that shuttle messages between computer terminals, telephones and other office equipment. All can then be consolidated into a "work station" atop a desk. "The world of the future is centered on powerful work stations," says Lewis Branscomb, IBM's chief scientist...
...Instead, he thanked his compatriots for their "solidarity" in aiding those "interned, imprisoned, dismissed from work." But the meaning was clear enough to the 750,000 young people who had gathered for a special Mass. They applauded loudly and waved red and white handkerchiefs. Speaking from a floodlit altar atop the huge stone ramparts of the monastery, the Pope told his youthful listeners to remember that the Virgin Mary understood "your sense of injustice and humiliation and the lack of prospects for the future." Then he issued a gentle but firm challenge to the state. "Man," he said, "cannot remain...
...silver-haired Chernenko, 71, was long considered a potential successor. But a few months after Andropov's designation as party leader, Chernenko dropped from public view, ostensibly to battle a bout of pneumonia. When he failed to appear for the traditional May Day lineup atop the Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow's active rumor mills began to speculate that he had lost another behind-the-scenes power struggle with Andropov. But once the more than 300 members of the powerful Central Committee had retreated to their semiannual closed-door meeting last week, the official Soviet agency TASS revealed the dramatic...
Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one of his satellites to beam down a hurricane on Colombia (where, he notes wryly, "coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown...