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...weeks ago, 19-year-old Elijah Pate was shot dead by policemen who say he was trying to run them over in a stolen car. Two autopsies show that the officers lied about the incident. The bullets that his Pate struck areas of his body that couldn't have been exposed if, as the Boston police claim, they shot while he was trying to get away...
When William Selden, a former IBM executive, started his own data-processing firm in 1977, he ordered six Honeywell computers. The first one was delivered to his Rochester headquarters in the spring of 1978, but, says Selden, "it was two months late and dead on arrival." He spent two years trying to get the balky operating system of the computer to function while his infant firm ran up losses that totaled $1.2 million. Selden was forced to liquidate his business and sell the 200-year-old family farm to pay his debts. He is suing Honeywell for $6.4 million...
Body Builder Lisa Lyon, 30, is too busy these days to pump much iron. The U.C.L.A. anthropology graduate, who can dead-lift 225 lbs., has written and appeared in two pictorial bestsellers (Lady; Lisa Lyon's Body Magic) that feature muscle-bulging poses she calls "body sculpture." Now she has left her duties as hostess of a Playboy Network talk show to develop a fashion-modeling career. The 5-ft. 3½-in., 105-lb. unscrawny mannequin currently appears on six pages of the German edition of Vogue; her physique may soon grace rag-trade magazines in Italy...
Despite the length, the first twelve hours are rarely repetitive, never languorous. The narration, by Boston Actor Will Lyman, is unintrusive and kept to a minimum. The only conspicuous adornment is a jungle-beat musical theme written by Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann of the rock group the Grateful Dead...
...firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says the institute's Burt Krashes: "Anyone caught with a laser-inscribed stone would be a dead duck." The typical cost for the owner of a one-carat stone is about $110. Since a flawless diamond of that size runs anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000, a girl's best friend may soon be the marking on her stones...