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...Lorean, 59, finally opened last week in the U.S. court house in Los Angeles, 18 months after his dramatic arrest in that city in a Sheraton Hotel room. He is charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of smuggled cocaine. The evidence: five hours of videotapes and 48 audio recordings made by a paid informant and by undercover agents from the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration...
Hands-Off Bill is the brainchild of Lloyd Martin, 42, an ex-policeman who headed the sexually-exploited-child unit of the Los Angeles police department. Using the voice of a small boy, Bill talks to children on a 30-minute audio tape constructed in the form of a radio show. The tape, along with a workbook, is sold for home...
When RCA brought out its SelectaVision VideoDisc Player in 1981, it had visions of a huge new market. Dubbed the Manhattan Project during 15 years of development, SelectaVision works much like a phonograph. A diamond needle picks up video and audio signals from the tiny grooves of a silvery plastic disc whirling at 450 r.p.m. To operate the machine, which is connected to a TV set, the user simply inserts a disc and flips a lever...
...defense will contend that De Lorean thought he was meeting with legitimate businessmen to persuade them to invest in his car company. But De Lorean's lawyers must overcome the evidence on five hours of videotapes and 58 audio recordings that will be the heart of the Government's case. The defense will also try to destroy the credibility of a main prosecution witness, James Timothy Hoffman, a former drug dealer and onetime California neighbor of De Lorean's, who helped get De Lorean involved with the undercover agents. The defense will claim that Hoffman enticed...
...Supreme Court, which has not made a ruling on libel since 1979, last month heard oral arguments on a case involving critical judgments. Bose Corp. had sued Consumer Reports magazine for writing that one type of its audio speakers produced sound that "tended to wander about the room." A federal judge awarded Bose $115,000, but an appeals court overturned the decision on the ground that the company had not proved that the magazine was guilty of malice. The appeals court ignored the issue of whether the statements in question were presented as fact or opinion. Since the principal service...