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...Stoffel says, "Wrestling is a release from day after day of working. You come here and yell and scream and yell and scream and then go home. My daughter loves it." Little Courtney, in a red and white sailor suit, hides her face in her mother's lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Wrestling with Good and Evil | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...their attack on Pearl Harbor, were invading the Philippines and advancing southward through British Malaya; the Germans ruled most of Europe. But Jan. 30 was also Roosevelt's 60th birthday, and Churchill remembered to wish him many happy returns, "and may your next birthday see us a long lap forward on our road." That was what prompted Roosevelt's expression of delight to be sharing such a road with such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eavesdropping on History | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...title says it all, so to speak. There's this young cove, Bertie Wooster--a straight chap, if a little fogged sometimes. Now this valet Jeeves drops into the lap of this Wooster and dusts the cobwebs out of his life, dispensing a few useful fashion hints in the process. Not that Wooster doesn't need a firm hand for some get up and go--he can barely adjust his own ascot...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sunai, | Title: The Butler Does It All | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

What do doctor, drummer, photographer and astronaut have in common? None of them would leave home without his portable computer. Propped on knees and laps and fold-down trays, these marvels of miniaturization are turning up in the most familiar places: planes, buses, restaurants, at the track and on the campaign trail. Portable computers have shrunk in three years from the size of sewing machines to no bigger than a TV dinner, and in some circles they have become as ubiquitous as wristwatch calculators, headphone stereos and beepers. According to Dataquest, a California research firm, Americans this year will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking It on the Road | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...market. Early hand-held machines were glorified calculators with one-line screens. The first full-screen model, Grid Systems' Compass computer, cost $8,150 when it was introduced in 1982. But falling prices for both flat-panel display screens and computer chips that require little energy have made lap-size computers affordable. Last year Seattle-based Microsoft and Japan's Kyocera came up with the first winner: an eight-line screen with a full-size keyboard that could be sold with built-in software for less than $800. Marketed in slightly different models by Radio Shack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking It on the Road | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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