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...that started it all." Peter Israel, president of the Putnam Publishing Group, Inc., dismisses talking books as a "fad, certainly, but I'm not sure it's a real business." But those who have made a commitment to electronic literature beg to differ. Newman Communications Corp., one of the fastest-growing tape publishers in the U.S., began in 1981 with sales of less than $200,000, which leaped to more than $7 million three years later. "We're not dealing with a Hula-Hoop phenomenon," says its president, Harold J. Newman. "The underlying base of the business continues to grow...
...number of retired athletes, brought along as "goodwill ambassadors," being in Moscow produced a bittersweet sensation. "The hardest part for me," Gaines admitted, "was walking into the swim stadium for the first time. Immediately, I looked at Lane 4, the lane for the fastest qualifier, and slowly my eye went back and forth, back and forth." Like dreamy children, the swimmers Gaines and Steve Lundquist, the basketball player Ann Meyers, the triple jumper Willie Banks, among others, spoke in favor of peace at an extraordinary press conference whose subjects ranged from a reunion of the Apollo-Soyuz spacemen...
...once, a politician was guilty of understatement. Today Greater Orlando, with Walt Disney World as its golden profit center, is one of the nation's fastest-growing areas in population, revenue and new-tech industry. The people who live and work in Orlando are there for the same reasons as those who visit: because of its proximity to an all-ages fun-time wonderworld. Here is a metropolis whose success has been erected on the American family's itch for entertainment. Not since Southern California sprang up around the burgeoning Hollywood film colony has a region owed its riches...
...reliability, economy and all that, but in the end, what really dazzles them is speed. How else to explain such an affinity for one-hour photo developing, instant replay, touch- tone phones and suntanning parlors? America's entrepreneurs have responded to that imperative with some of the world's fastest products and services, ranging from frozen food to instant bank loans. Like Domino's Pizza, many U.S. corporate empires were built for people in a hurry: McDonald's, Federal Express, Polaroid and Southland Corp., the operator of 7-Eleven stores. "America values speed," observes Felipe Castro, assistant professor of psychology...
...inherited the paper from their father in 1949, only 55,000 people lived in Fredericksburg and four neighboring counties. The Star had six editorial employees, type was set by hand, and circulation fell shy of 6,500. Today the population is 134,800 and Spotsylvania is one of the fastest-growing counties in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Star has entered the high-tech age, with 23 computer terminals in the cramped newsroom and an offset printing press next door...