Word: fi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlucky at marketing. The firm was founded in 1962 to make and sell transistor radios developed by Clive Sinclair; he had soaked up a knowledge of electronics while working as a writer for a British company that specialized in technical manuals. By 1967 he had diversified into hi-fi systems. A few years later, he introduced the elegant, expensive and popular line of "Executive" calculators in Europe and the U.S. But in 1975 such electronic giants as Texas Instruments and Japan's Casio captured most of the market and drove down calculator prices. Meanwhile Sinclair had introduced the Black...
...morning and coped with lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (in Hungarian: "Ugy szerette, Isten a világot, hogy egy szülött Fiát adta oda"). When Graham concluded by asking the Hungarians to signal their rededication to Jesus Christ, thousands of arms were raised in response...
...entire movie industry may well have missed the point on the bonanza of Star Wars [Aug. 22]: the reason for the success of Wars is not the sci-fi appeal; it is the fun of the movie. Star Wars is a movie of today, like the romantic movies of yesteryear...
...fi The emphasis is on fi. In NBC's The Man from Atlantis, a fishy survivor from the lost civilization teams up with a comely lady scientist for some underwater heroics. CBS's Logan s Run, a spin-off from the film, zaps into the 24th century. In it a man and woman are on the run from certain death, and each week they seek shelter in a different society...
...people are as pleased with Hollywood's new trend as Producer George Pal, whose sci-fi films of the 1950s regularly won Academy Awards for their special effects. Not only are Pal pictures like The War of the Worlds (1953) and When Worlds Collide (1951) being rereleased, but the latter is about to be remade by Director John Frankenheimer. Pal himself, now 69, is at work writing a sequel to his 1961 film The Time Machine. Says he: "Star Wars has proved again that a special effect is as big a star as any in the world...