Word: compassable
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...incongruously on an antique coffee table in an ornate office at the State Department. On the top of the box is an inscription scrawled in red marker: FOREIGN POLICY KIT. FOR THE BEST DAD IN GOVERNMENT. Inside are a tiny American flag, some Band-Aids, dice, a flashlight, a compass, a pacifier and a box of Anacin. "Everything I need," laughs George Shultz...
...pricier end of the market, Grid Systems of Mountain View, Calif., offers the Mercedes-Benz version. It has a thin, flat screen, folds into a sleek 9¼-lb. magnesium package and slips easily into the bottom half of a briefcase. The Compass Computer, as it is called, packs considerable storage capacity-enough to handle the wordage of a long novel. "It's a truly stunning engineering achievement," says one industry analyst. Equally stunning, however, is the price...
Japan is also quickly moving to pioneer its own technological advances. Sharp has developed a flat computer display screen that takes much less space than conventional ones. It is being used by Grid Systems of Mountain View, Calif., in its new Compass computer, which sells for $8,150. Sony has introduced a device that can store nearly twice as much computer information in about half the space that is now required. Japan is also reputed to have a lead in the development of more futuristic improvements like videodisc storage, which will vastly enlarge the capacity of personal computers...
...flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake...
...until Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko allowed Gushin to cooperate did the commander relent. The skipper and his navigation officer emerged, asked for and were allowed permission to shower, and then settled down to claim during a seven-hour interrogation that they had hit the reef because their compass had failed...