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Sotheby's was helping RCA sell space on its new communications satellite, Satcom IV, scheduled to be launched Jan. 12. As Sotheby's president, John L. Marion, opened the bidding, he stood in front of a back-lit picture of an orbiting Satcom that was no challenge to Turner for delicacy and draftsmanship. But aesthetics were not the point. Up for grabs were leasing rights to seven Satcom transponders. These devices pick up video signals from one point on earth and relay them to other points, enabling their users to distribute cable programs, for example...
...objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven are as yet undesignated...
...president in America. With dozens of colleges looking for male leaders, his national reputation has followed three of the four steps traditionally ascribed to the rise and fall of a movie star: I "Who's Kingman Brewster?" II. "Get me Kingman Brewster." III. "Get me a Kingman Brewster type." IV. "Who's Kingman Brewster?" A Kingman Brewster type can be all things to all people. Most important, to alumni, he will keep things quiet. At a dinner last month the directors of the Associated Harvard Alumni--slavering in anticipation--asked student politicos from Faculty committees, "Would Harvard students fall...
Mitterrand also endorsed plans to modernize the other two pillars of France's nuclear force de frappe, bombers and missiles. The plans call for equipping the country's 35 Mirage IV strategic bombers with air-to-ground missiles and studying a new, possibly mobile system for protecting its 18 land-based intermediate-range missiles. He also reversed a campaign pledge to reduce compulsory military service from twelve to six months. Last month Defense Minister Charles Hernu, 58, announced a 17.6% hike in the defense budget, to $22 billion. Discounted for inflation, the increase amounts to 3.6%, higher than...
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