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...West Germany, leading journalists belittled Stern. Said Lothar Loewe, director of West Berlin's TV station SFB: "The whole affair is the result of checkbook journalism, of which Stern is the worst offender." In a front-page editorial in Hamburg's prestigious weekly newspaper Die Zeit, Editor Theo Sommer said, "When lightweights are combined with heavy money, the controlling responsibilities in journalism are easily lost...
...better spent with my people." Arthur Kesten, who installed his computer at home, sometimes communicates with the three big mainframe computers at the U.T. research center where he is an assistant director. But Kesten found that the device is ineffective as a home appliance. Says he: "Balancing a checkbook on a computer is silly...
...Balanced Checkbook...
Many new commuters report on the shock, sometimes comic, of working out new support systems-from how to balance the family checkbook, to finding a new doctor or dentist, to simply lugging the family silver back and forth to have it on hand for dinner parties in both cities. Says Harriet Engel Gross of Governors State University, one of the sociologists who study commuter marriages: "The decision to live apart produces a life-style that is difficult at best, endured in the service of career or other goals, but not one endorsed enthusiastically." The typical commuter, researchers say, is very...
...will be perhaps 10 million of them by 1985. Sales this year are expected to be $1.5 billion. About three-quarters of the machines are used by businesses to keep track of inventories and sales and perform other office tasks. Use in the home, where computers can balance a checkbook, make out tax returns or be study aids, has been developing more slowly than in small businesses...