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...others it was an excuse to militarize space before the Soviets could; for still others it was a plausible pretext for breaking the antiballistic-missile treaty. Hardly anyone believed the pure-and-simple defensive-shield story that had been sold to the American people in, appropriately, a television cartoon. Hardly anyone, that is, but Reagan. To the horror of those around him, Reagan -- with the amiable way he has of thinking he can sell anything so obviously good as his own intentions -- began to bargain away all ballistic missiles (perhaps all nuclear weapons; it is impossible to get the story...
Vasconcellos' task force last week joined an elite company, including Ronald Reagan's brain and Frank Sinatra's college degree, targeted for satire in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon strip. Boopsie, the strip's airhead actress, is selected as a task-force member mainly because she has out-of-body experiences. Her reaction: "I can't get over how open this state is to new ideas...
...Tech Force robots, executives confirm that the toys are controlled by audio signals. Michael Hatcher, Axlon's senior product manager, imitates the sound by muttering a low-pitched beeping noise. The Tech Force robots will carry microprocessors that decode the signals from the sound track of the Tech Force cartoon program. Those beeps -- signifying such commands as forward, reverse, right and left -- will send the robots wheeling across the living-room floor. At the same time, children can control other robots by sending out audio commands from a small keyboard. That way youngsters can stage battles between the robots they...
...rivals. Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and now head of a toy company called Axlon, has developed Tech Force and the Moto-Monsters, a group of mobile robots that are scheduled to go on sale this month. The Tech Force robots will move in response to a cartoon show that will debut in the fall, as well as to commands from a keyboard. The starting price is high: about $250 for a set of two hero robots, two villainous ones and two keyboards. Another competitor will be World Events Productions of St. Louis, which is developing interactive toys...
...ignorance," blares the accompanying voice. (Condoms, however, are not mentioned.) Detailed information is in leaflets being sent to the nation's 23 million homes. Denmark and Norway are matter-of-factly running explicit pro-prophylactic TV spots alongside ads for traffic safety and medical care. One cartoon commercial depicts a small i in the word AIDS that reaches full capital size when covered with a condom. West Germany is also in the midst of an all-out campaign to promote condoms. By this week 66 million newspapers and magazines will have carried a drawing of a man and woman with...