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...William Capobianco's one-man financial consulting firm in Eastchester, N.Y., would not exist without services such as CompuServe, Dow Jones and the Source. By plugging into these far-flung communication systems, Capobianco can advertise his company across the U.S., chat with clients, make travel plans and keep up with current affairs. Says he: "I couldn't survive without the networks...
...Capobianco is not talking about ABC, CBS and NBC. The networks changing his life--and the lives of millions of Americans--are the ones connecting the nation's 30 million computers in a vast maze of interlocking grids. America's infatuation with the electronic computer, a machine born and nurtured on these shores, is blossoming into a network love affair. Says Louise Herndon Wells, an analyst with the California research firm Dataquest: "We have more desktops wired together with information devices than any other country in the world...
...only one in the world who can arrange this event," boasted San Diego Opera Director Tito Capobianco. Indeed, Capobianco's Die Fledermaus was an operatic double play: the first time Queen Coloraturas Beverly Sills, 51, and Joan Sutherland, 53, have appeared onstage together, and the last time Sills will appear in a full-length opera. Of course, few would have considered asking two divas to, Mozart forbid, share the same spotlight. Says Sills: "We still don't know if Tito asked Joan first and told her I had said yes, or asked me first and told...
Still, John Howe's personal unfamiliarity with the assessment process is unusual. Alderman Puglia calls Howe "the most unqualified assessor in the history of Massachusetts." In a deposition under oath during assessment victim Cosmo Capobianco's libel suit against Howe, Howe admitted that he has had "very little" training in the real estate business, and that he did not know the most important and elementary concept an assessor must learn--the three basic methods of appraising the value of real estate...
...occasional press releases he has issued in the course of his term as tax assessor. Reports persist that his statements have in fact been authored by his sister Marie and her close friend Leonard Scott. However, John Howe denies the reports. But under cross-examination by Howe enemy Cosmo Capobianco's lawyers during his March 1977 lawsuit proceedings in Middlesex Country Superior Court, Howe revealed that he did not know the meanings of many of the words used in his own press releases...