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Well, no. And yes. It is Spielberg's earliest memory, from a day in 1948 when he was taken in a stroller to a Cincinnati synagogue for a service with Hasidic elders. "The old men were handing me little crackers," Spielberg recalls. "My parents said later I must have been about six months old at the time." What a memory; and what profitable use he has found for his memories and fantasies. If this synagogue scene has never made it into one of the director-producer's movies, still the mood and metaphor it represents -- of fear escalating into wonder...
...father was an electrical engineer, part of the team that designed the first computers. In the late '40s and early '50s the computer industry was migratory, and my dad followed the movement. Within 13 years we moved from Cincinnati to Haddonfield, N.J., to Scottsdale, Ariz., to Saratoga, a suburb of San Jose. Just as I'd become accustomed to a school and a teacher and a best friend, the FOR SALE sign would dig into the front lawn and we'd be packing and off to some other state. I've always considered Arizona, where I was from nine...
...fastest-selling machine in home-electronics history. The videocassette recorder took six years (from 1975 to 1981) to reach the same milestone. "We're selling every single CD we can get our hands on," says Donald Swallen, vice president of the eight-store Swallen's retail chain in Cincinnati. "We can't order them fast enough...
...Coke's snap. Executives at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta say they get 1,500 calls a day, almost four times the normal volume. Most of the callers, says Coke, are "concerned." And how. "I hate the new stuff," says Sharlotte Donnelly, 36, an anthropologist in Cincinnati. "It's too sweet. It tastes like Pepsi." Says Wendy Koskela, 35, vice president of an insurance brokerage in San Francisco: "Real Coke had punch. This tastes almost like it's flat...
...mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What might have been merely a promotional stunt turned into an enticing Baedeker of American urban life and the country's romance with the rails. The show did not simply dwell on the sunny side of the tracks; Gumbel and Pauley examined troubled race relations in Memphis and Cincinnati's antipornography laws...