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When pressed he'll say it's because he's heard a lot about James Dean. Cultural rubbernecking, 26 years after the fact he wants to know what all the fuss was about. They would both rather be somewhere else...
...will be wild with chilled shot and chillier hunters. But whether the hunters will get their usual warm welcome when they stumble home with the day's bag (up to ten ducks and up to six geese per gunner) remains to be seen. After all the fuss, it may be a rare hostess who urges upon a guest a second helping of goose. -By Claudia Wallis...
Some would answer that the whole fuss over jury selection is exaggerated. Says Glenn Zell, an Atlanta attorney who has specialized in defending obscenity cases: "If you take the first twelve, it'll be just as good...
...fuss over President Reagan's four-week "vacation" [Aug. 24], which appears to be liberally sprinkled with official duties, is ludicrous. It was Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who said that he could do twelve months' work in eleven months, but not twelve months' work in twelve months. A periodic break from the rigors of work is not a luxury, it is necessary...
American firms experimenting with similar cameras tried last week to downplay Sony's breakthrough. "I can't understand all the fuss," said William Webster, vice president of RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., which has developed a videotape camera that operates on the same principle. "Why would anyone want a still camera that takes pictures only as sharp as those on your TV? It's an idea we've discussed for years and clearly decided that there's no market for the product." Said Eastman Kodak Vice President John Robertson: "We expect traditional still photography...