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Even when American engineers and researchers come up with new ideas and technologies, their companies often fail to follow up. The genesis of the videocassette recorder is a classic case in point. The basic technology for the VCR was invented at a California-based company called Ampex and developed further at R.C.A. Yet it was two Japanese companies -- Sony and JVC -- that bought rights to the technology and modified it. After 10,000 patented improvements, they made the VCR an affordable household product...
...money. In a dispute with U.A. over profit participation -- there were suspicions, says Director John Frankenheimer, that the studio was cooking the books -- Sinatra withheld rights to the movie. But it is of such snits that cult films are made. As Axelrod has said, "It went from failure to classic without ever passing through success." Now the filmmakers have their chance. The New York Film Festival coaxed Candidate from Sinatra last year, and the picture is doing robust business in six cities, as a promo for its spring debut in video stores. See? Happy endings all around...
Where do enduring legends come from? Where do mythical heroes come from? Where do classic works of popular art come from...
This older image, this Classic Coke, the real Superman, is a figure who somehow manages to embody the best qualities in that nebulous thing known as the American character. He is honest, he tells the truth, he is idealistic and optimistic, he helps people in need. He not only fights criminals but is indifferent to those vices that so often lead the rest of us astray. Despite his heroic abilities, he is not vain. He is not greedy. He is not an operator, a manipulator, not an inside trader. He does not lust after power. And not only...
...offered $6.1 billion, or $68 a share, for the Cincinnati-based retailer. But as happens routinely in romances and rarely in corporate struggles, the whitest knight conceivable appeared last week. The venerable R.H. Macy & Co., an all-American name that evokes images of Thanksgiving Day parades and the classic movie Miracle on 34th Street, made a comparable last-minute counterbid for Federated. Corporate rescues, though, are never as certain as chivalric ones. While Federated seized on Macy's offer, Campeau refused to withdraw from the field...