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Under construction in landlocked Switzerland, of all places, Oxy is the brainchild of a Swiss electronics engineer named Jean-Claude Protta, 32. An avid ocean sailor, Protta took a 15-month, 12,000-mile cruise and came home in 1971 with a headful of ideas about new electronic equipment for navigation. He brought his plans to Oxy Metal Industries International (O.M.I.I.), a division of Occidental Petroleum, which was looking for new applications for metal oxide semiconductors (MOS)-the tiny components that engineers use to cram extremely complex circuits onto silicon chips less than a quarter of an inch square...
...been an avid professional basketball fan all my life," points out Politician Larry O'Brien, 57, newest commissioner of the National Basketball Association. "It came naturally to me because I was born in Springfield, Mass., home of the invention of basketball." O'Brien, a former Postmaster General and ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, flopped as a high school forward, however, and admits that his playing time was limited to the local Y.M.C.A. courts. None of this mattered to N.B.A. team owners, who last week gave him a three-year contract and a more than...
Evans did not go out with his camera with a political or other specific intent. He went out with a curiosity in life-styles, in the objects that people surround themselves with, the way a civilization expresses itself materially. He was an avid collector of post cards and signs. "I'm interested in signs a great deal right now, so I find that I do signs wherever I find them. I usually swipe them too. I've got a wonderful collection." Sometimes he would swipe two of the same sign to give to friends as a gift. He picked...
...Paris embassy officials knew for weeks that Quilapayun's members belonged to the Communist Youth Organization in Chile and were avid supporters of the Allende regime. But in a deliberate move to harass the group, the embassy waited until the last minute to declare them members of the Communist Party, necessitating State Department intervention before the group could enter the United States...
...itself. Except that it is wittier, Same Time, Next Year is a redo of The Fourposter. It is the kind of theatrical fare that fiftyish middle-class marrieds have been starved for on Broadway in recent seasons, and they are likely to queue up for tickets in avid droves...