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...course, once the author has written his program, he usually has to find a software company willing to mass-produce and market it. The product is most often sold in the form of a floppy plastic disc the size of a 45-r.p.m. record on which the inventor's program is inscribed. All programs, however they are packaged and sold, are known as software. Programs written by independents have become the engine that drives the boom in personal computers. Unit sales of the $500-to-$12,000 desktop devices for office or home are expected to reach 1.1 million...
...Clark Higley, a local farmer, then mortgaged the ranch for $880,000 in 1976 and defaulted on the mortgage. Higley was evicted. Says Higley: "De Lorean is as smooth as silk. His henchman, Roy Nesseth, was on the scene giving us a real struggle. They're just crooks." Inventor Pete Avery of Phoenix says that De Lorean cheated him out of the lucrative rights to a widely used automobile coolant system. Yet Avery, after years of litigation with De Lorean, appreciates his charm. "He's a vicious man," says Avery, but adds: "I like the guy. That s.o.b...
Like Jean Harris, who killed the inventor of the Scarsdale Diet, and Claus Von Bulow, the man accused of fatally injecting his heiress wife with insulin, DeLorean has taken a long fall. As one former associate said, "When you like on the 43rd floor on Park Avenue, you have nowhere to go but down; and he did, with a bang." But DeLorean had talent and contributed much to automobile world; it is sad to lose his services. For all intents and purposes, though, this American Dream has come...
...roughly around the turn of the century. Sex Comedy recounts a weekend hosted by Allen and his wife in a rural vacation house. Playing a Wall Street broker and weekend inventor, Allen greets his guests, and the complications begin as he recognizes a lost love. She is engaged, one member of one of the two couples who have come to visit. A "spirit lamp," with an embarrassing knack for revealing clandestine affairs, and copious quantities of wine contribute to the mixing and matching of the lovers, all or whom end contentedly mated by the film's conclusion...
DIED. Melville Bell Grosvenor, 80, patriarchal head of the National Geographic Society; in Miami. Grosvenor's great-grandfather founded the society in 1888; his grandfather Inventor Alexander Graham Bell was its second president; his father edited the society's magazine, the National Geographic, for 55 years. "M.B.G.," as he was known, was president and editor from 1957 to 1967. A world traveler and master seaman, he increased funds for research, exploration, TV and films...