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...point is well taken. A Soviet survey showing that while women were spending hours in long shopping lines, arguing with bureaucratic clerks and doing household chores without the benefit of a bevy of modern appliances, husbands were lazily watching TV, reading newspapers, tippling with their cronies or otherwise being idle...
...lagoon in Hercules, Calif., to purify water and make methane gas. This year Robert Witkoff, 40, an industrial designer and builder of electric cars in Glen Cove, N.Y., is asking for $50,000 to help develop an integrated windmill system that would use gently blowing breezes both to drive household appliances and to recharge the batteries of an electric...
...revenues will be generated through advertising, a relatively new idea in cable TV that Turner pioneered at WTBS, his Atlanta-based "superstation." WTBS beams sports and entertainment programs via satellite to cable systems around the country. Systems that subscribe to his new service will pay only 200 per household per month (150 if they already carry WTBS). He has signed up 17 advertisers so far, with the biggest commitment ($25 million over ten years) from Bristol-Myers Co. CNN should break even when it has 8 million subscribers, Turner calculates. That goal might be within reach if, as some analysts...
ENGAGED. Prince Tomohito, 34, Oxford-educated son of Japan's Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito; and Nobuko Aso, 25, a Tokyo English teacher whose grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida, was his country's first elected postwar Prime Minister. The Council of Imperial Household Affairs had to approve the marriage (probably in October) of the shy commoner and the affable prince, whose first proposal seven years ago was turned down because of her age. Her description of her fiancé: "warm-hearted...
...circus tent and using an unsuspecting J.B. in the role of the lucky man who has everything he cherishes--family, money, health, happiness--destroyed as a test of his faith in God's goodness. From a high platform, the two look down on J.B. and his exuberant household and plot the tragedies that will befall him as they argue vehemently over the justification for God's cruel trial...