Word: berserkers
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...fallout has started, so has the industry infighting. Byte Ad Sales Manager Peter Huestis sent out hundreds of letters proclaiming that Lydon's Personal Computing had failed to meet its promised circulation increases. Lydon rebutted that Byte had "gone berserk...
...there was a fine page of anecdotes about all the eccentrics who had passed through the newsroom since the days when Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur were working on that wonderful play. Editorial-Page Editor Charles Roper, who compiled the memoir, recalled that someone went berserk in the composing room one day and the police had to be summoned. The cops got off on the wrong floor, confronted the nearest writer, Bob Johnson, and said, "We understand you have a crazy man up here." Johnson waved an arm about the room and said, "Take your pick...
...pace of the action are too different, which may be why the single most successful moment of the production is the overture, staged in front of a scrim decorated with the Northwest Orient Airlines logo. Blond air hostesses go through the usual check-out procedures, finding some berserk synchronization between their clockwork movements and Sullivan's ravishing score...
...entice customers, banks and S and Ls have offered introductory-and temporary-interest rates far higher than the 8¼% now being paid by the typical money-market fund. In the Atlanta area, the banks practically went berserk, guaranteeing rates of 20% or more for the first month. The First DeKalb Bank there, which dangled 25% interest and an E.T. doll, took in $7 million the first day, an amount that increased the bank's total deposits by 17%. Elsewhere, rates have been more realistic, generally ranging from 9% to 11%. But money has hardly been the only lure...
What causes nice, healthy, law-abiding cells to go berserk, proliferate wildly and thus produce the phenomenon called cancer? The answer, scientists have long suspected, lies in the genetic material of the cells. Somehow genes, composed of the molecule deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), have been made abnormal, perhaps by such environmental factors as cigarette smoke and radiation...