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...these breakthrough products look hopelessly oversize. Last month Compaq unveiled a 2.2-kg (6-lb.) full-powered portable computer that fits in a briefcase. Sharp and Poqet make even smaller models that slip into a suit pocket. Today there are fax machines, radar detectors, electronic dictionaries, cellular telephones, color televisions, even videotape recorders that fit comfortably in the palm of a hand...
Editor's Note: We just received this urgent fax late last night from Naples Pizza Parlor and Copy Center in New Haven...
...view. The foresighted journeyer will have made an appointment to use his car's shower next morning, and the porter will knock at the proper time with a bathrobe. At breakfast, a driven soul may have a cellular phone brought to the table to cancel some airline reservations or fax the menu (of course there is fax) to his worst enemy...
...about a different kind of temptation. It is called The Reader's Catalog, a large-format, 1,382-page paperback ($24.95) describing more than 40,000 books in print, covering 208 categories ranging from Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience of mail-order shopping...
...hailstorms of outrage. Friendship? What kind of macho was that? "Wimpy!" cried Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ann Richards, showing that she's one of the boys. The Houston city council signed a resolution urging the commission to reconsider, the Houston Post received more than 1,200 irate letters, and the fax machine in the Houston office of Highway Commissioner Wayne Duddleston spat out hundreds of furious protests. Said the befuddled Duddleston: "I had no idea the furor this would cause. I thought the plate was attractive, certainly colorful and highly readable, and that it would promote tourism. It never occurred...