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Last week in Las Vegas the biggest American TV company, RCA, introduced its video products for 1985. RCA brought out a line of 54 color TVs, 18 of them equipped to provide stereo sound and 38 fitted with jumbo screens of 25 in. or more. Early next month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, 350 firms will display their video wares...
...football teams, gamecocks, refinery workers or Democrats. Texas Democrats have more warring factions-from Big Oil to Boll Weevil to Prairie Populist-than just about any other political party west of Italy's Christian Democrats. Lone Star politicians relish their infighting so much that when State Representative Ben ("Jumbo") Atwell was asked a few years back if he was thinking of leaving the legislature, he responded, "What? And give up show...
...batwomen were also fortunate on offense yesterday, scoring both their runs on errors by Jumbo fielders. Harvard capitalized on the first Tufts mishap in the second inning, when first baseman Joan Cunningham came home after Tufts' Kris Herman, covering on a bunt, threw the ball into the outfield after trying to get Cunningham at third...
Harvard, again capitalizing on a Jumbo mishap which this time proved to be fatal, got the run it needed to pull out the squeaker in the top of the ninth...
...Jumbo left fielder, trying to double Boyer off second, fired it in to second baseman Margie Cohen, but overthrew her. Analert Cunningham immediately broke for home, and scored what would turn out to be the winning...