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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first high-tech consortiums in the U.S. have had rocky beginnings. The Austin-based Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., which a group of electronics companies formed in 1982 for research in advanced computer technology, was shaky at first because member firms were reluctant to share their best researchers and ideas with rivals. But retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA who headed MCC until 1986, melted their resistance. Now under the stewardship of former Texas Instruments executive Grant Dove, MCC has brought to market its first products, including a new method for connecting chips to circuit boards...
...Association of Retired Persons's "55 Alive/Mature Driving" program, an eight-hour driver-education course taught in 17,000 classrooms across the U.S. for a nominal fee. Says Michael Seaton, creator of the A.A.R.P. program: "Older drivers want to be safe on the road. Most have never had a high school driver's-education class, and they enjoy the course." As the A.A.R.P. program and ones like it expand, so too will the odds that older drivers will safely enjoy the open road well into their golden years...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: AMERICAN DREAM (Atlantic). The title cut on this reunion album delivers more bounce -- as well as a bit of bile -- than the rest of the album combined, but the guitar work has some fire and those famous harmonies can still soar high...
...LYRE OF ORPHEUS by Robertson Davies (Viking; $19.95). The third novel in a trilogy about the life and aftereffects of an eccentric Canadian millionaire. An engaging plot involving high finance, grand opera and a voice from Limbo...