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...focusing 35-mm instrument seemed immune to the photographic-equipment industry's usual cutthroat discounting practices. One reason, some consumers claim, is that Minolta coerced its retailers to charge a minimum of $319.95 for the Maxxum and $189.95 for its AF-Tele. Last week John Troncelliti, a suburban Philadelphia barber, filed a national class- action suit against the Japanese manufacturer, charging that it ordered retailers to keep prices high or lose the right to sell Minolta's line...
...deceptively quiet and unassuming start to what looms as a vitally important--and perhaps highly controversial--new era. On his second day in office, Barber Conable, 63, the newly anointed president of the World Bank, strolled onto a dais in Washington last week and inaugurated his term with an apology. He did not know much about his new job, the former Republican Congressman from New York told waiting journalists, and he would therefore require a "period of learning." What Conable already knows, however, is that he will need all the acumen and skills acquired during his 20 years on Capitol...
...more resources more quickly. A much bigger worry, however, is that the institution will fail to come up with enough funds to encourage the kind of policy changes needed for long-term Third World growth. Warns Lawrence Brainard, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Barber Conable will not be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the debt crisis...
...barber, Milton Pitts, reports that when Ronald Reagan took office his hair was about 25% gray. It is now 30% gray. The President has added a second hearing aid in the past year or so. He uses three combinations for his eyes: hard contact lenses for normal activities, half glasses over the contacts for reading, and a single contact lens (left eye) for giving speeches on podiums where he needs to focus on the audience and the TelePrompTer at the same time. Reagan still has his suits made with buttons on the flies. He refuses to wear makeup for television...
Sleight of hand: Reagan is the first complete television President. The implications of that mastery are unsettling. Says Political Scientist James David Barber of Duke University: "Television news is very heavy on feelings. There is always a temptation to reduce the question to sentiment. Reagan's criterion of validity is theatrical rather than empirical...