Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burbank, Calif...
Three years ago, Telesensory Systems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., came out with its Speech Plus talking calculator, which sounds out the numbers and the functions that are punched in. Price: $395. Next year Telesensory hopes to produce a computer for the blind that will scan a printed page and turn it into speech...
...known variously as "the Ayatullah," "St. Jane" and "Attila the Nun," a reference to the six months she once spent in a Berkeley, Calif., convent. As those sour nicknames show, the rise of Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, 46, chairman of NBC, has produced a predictable mix of envy, admiration, fear and resentment, laced with a dollop of old-fashioned male chauvinism...
...Multinationals excluding government-owned oil companies operating in only one country. 1978 sales** Exxon $60,334,527,000 Royal Dutch/Shell $44,054,400,000 Mobil $34,736,045,000 Texaco $28,607,521,000 British Petroleum $27,390,915,000 Standard Oil of Calif. $23,232.413,000 Gulf Oil $18,069,000,000 Standard Oil (Indiana) $14,961,489,000 ENI (Italy) $12,500,000,000 Atlantic Richfield $12,298,403,000 Française des Pétroles $10,875,1 17,000 Continental Oil $9,455,241,000 Petrobrás (Brazil) $9,131,101,000 Elf -Aquitaine (France...
...Channel 38 and booing the hated Yankees, playing a different team in a different city, on Channel 11. In New York suburbs, minority audiences or the merely curious can sample Spanish-language interview shows or a Korean variety hour or instruction in yoga. In Castro Valley, Calif., older viewers can tune in a weekly program of panel discussions and entertainment produced by and for senior citizens, sometimes featuring performers in their 80s. And all over the country, movie buffs can see at home such recent films as High Anxiety and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, presented on the tube uncut...