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...missionary among the 10,000 garbage pickers of the Egyptian capital. They are untouchables who live in what amounts to perpetual serfdom, bequeathing their trade and squalor to succeeding generations. The garbage pickers stay alive by sorting through the refuse that is hauled out from the city in creaking donkey carts. The ragged men and women save the bottles and tin cans to be sold, and feed the slop to the pigs who live with them. Infant mortality in the community is an appalling...
...Emmanuelle spends hours visiting her flock, carrying a ledger in which she has meticulously written down the names and needs of 3,000 families. But her gentleness turns to steel when she browbeats bureaucrats or bankers to help the garbage pickers. She envisions motorized vehicles to replace the dilapidated donkey carts. She wants to replace pickers' filthy garments with clean uniforms and to pen the pigs instead of allowing them to roam in and out of homes. Says she: "It will cost money, but it won't be expensive. I want to prove it's possible...
Even the up-and-comers among video games were not spared. The stock of Coleco Industries Inc., which has a hit cartridge called Donkey Kong and a new console, ColecoVision, fell almost nine points in two days. Declared President Arnold Greenberg: "This is an inevitable initial reaction when the largest company in the industry says it has had disappointments. Some of the newer companies like us have really taken a large share away from Atari and Mattel." Coleco, based in Hartford, Conn., expects its sales to jump 180% this year, to $500 million...
...Street's Wertheim & Co.: "We don't think the market for cartridges will peak until 1984 or 1985." But Londoner adds, "I don't think the stock market will continue to be enraptured by video games." While millions of Americans will still be looking for a Donkey Kong or Frogger game under their trees this Christmas, investors have already started the search for other hot stocks...
...could be expected, each of the three major networks has at least one show that just couldn't survive the bitter cold of winters past. ABC executives still have nightmares about "Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey,"--shown in 1977--while CBS took the stuffing out of "Raggedy Ann and the Great Christmas Caper" after it ran in 1978. For NBC, one of the more forgettable holiday specials employed those special ingredients that inexplicably continued to dominate the schedules--a 1979 special called "A Country Christmas," which set Scrooge's misdeeds to a truly sinister beat...