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...have those people immediately available, have you thought about raiding your local newspaper? For what you pay those inexperienced announcers, you could hire the best--the best--newspaperman in your town as on-air broadcaster, or news director, or both: a fellow or gal who knows the city like a book, likes the city, warts and all, and plans to raise a family there." But won't viewers turn away from ordinary-looking anchormen? No, says Uncle Walter. Of even a rumpled, pot-bellied greying anchorman, he says, "I'll guarantee you this: he knows more about your town...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: Anchors Away | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...folks have moved altogether from the King's Road homestead, according to London directory assistance. CBS has no specific time slot yet for the movie, but I'm sure it's going to be a smash. What a gal...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Pictures of Catherine | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...find a name even if it is not being spelled correctly. Given the phonetic spelling of a name, the computer provides the phone numbers and addresses of all the names that sound the same. For example, if the caller is looking for Jacques Legalle, but types "Jacques Le Gal" into the computer, the machine will still come up with the right name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Terminal in Every Home? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...deal worse for the Congressman, multimillionaire founder of Walco, maker of products ranging from motors to coffins. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Justice Department agreed not to prosecute Richmond for an array of other possible crimes, including ordering his staff to buy him cocaine, receiving an ille gal $100,000 annual pension from Walco and helping find a job as a mailroom clerk in the House for Earl Randolph, a fugitive who had been serving an 18-year term for aggravated assault in Massachusetts. After leaving the House job, Randolph was arrested for male prostitution by an undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fred's Follies | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

Crotti's barnyard brainstorm has already undergone tests at a 31,500-gal. spill in the Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Antipollution Pillows | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

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