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RADIO SHACK. The strong-selling TRS-80 Color Computer costs $399, down $98 from last year. Tandy Corp., which has previously sold through its Radio Shack stores, this month will begin offering a companion version of the Color Computer at independent television dealers. Tandy's market share for low-priced computers...
...world collapsing about him, Calvi fled Italy with a false passport, flying first to Austria, then to England. There, according to the two confidants who were with him, a traveling companion and a longtime business partner, he remained in seclusion in a rented apartment in London's Chelsea section. On June 17, Banco Ambrosiano's board of directors voted to strip Calvi of his powers, and the Bank of Italy appointed a commission to run Ambrosiano. That same day, Graziella Corrocher, 55, Calvi's longtime secretary-who, says Sindona, also kept the books for P2-plunged...
Cohn is no Noah. Indeed, readers would do well to give up any notion of decoding the ciphers and symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when...
...started the credit card boom with the launching of Diners' Club in 1950. In July Vicki Morgan. 30, filed a $10 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale and his wife Betsy, claiming that Bloomingdale had promised her lifetime support during the twelve years she says she was his companion. He left his entire estate, which some have estimated at $50 million, to his wife and to a trust fund...
...sailors seem up to their challenge. Desmond Hampton, 41, a handsome London real estate broker, has chartered the 56-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth V from the family of the late Sir Francis Chichester. Hampton's only companion will be a tiny stuffed koala bear presented to him for good luck by his daughter. Guy Bernardin, 37, a French business executive who will skipper the 38-ft. Ratso II, accepts the loneliness of the long-distance sailor. "For a race such as this," he says, "you must clear out all the responsibilities in your life. Anything can happen. You must...