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Chrysler (1982 sales: $10 billion). The revived company has jumped from a 7.4% share of the market in 1979 to 10.4% at present. This month it brought out its Chrysler Laser XE ($10,960)-Dodge Daytona sports cars, developed at a cost of $270 million to compete with classy imports like the Toyota Supra and the Mazda RX7. Early next year the company will begin full production of the first U.S.-made minivan. The front-wheel-drive vehicle, developed by Chrysler at a cost of $600 million, will sell for about $9,000, has room for seven passengers and fits...
...Dirk will have rivals in the arcades. Data East USA has begun shipping a laser videodisc game called Bega's Battle, in which a superhero must save the world from destruction by fending off fireballs and dragons. Also expected to reach the arcades soon is Mylstar Electronics' M.A.C.H. 3, which stands for Military Air Command Hunter. The game puts the player in the cockpit of a fighter or bomber, and the laser disc projects film footage of terrain passing below, while the computer generates graphics representing enemy tanks, bridges and factories, which the pilot tries to destroy...
Coleco has bought the rights to produce a home version of Dragon's Lair and hopes to have it ready some time next year. Some companies, however, think the technology of bringing laser videodisc games into the home may be tricky. Says Parker Bros.' Stearns: "We very much want to participate in the laser videodisc market, and we're exploring it. But to rush headlong into this area when the hardware hasn't been perfected would be foolish...
...casting also flatters. In Ed Harris, 32, the producers found an uncanny lookalike, only handsomer. The blond, bristle-topped actor has blue laser eyes, a quick-fire smile, and more charisma than his real-life model...
Lazare Kaplan has now developed a way to dog-tag diamonds. It has patented a device that uses a laser beam to inscribe gems with a trademark and seven-digit number that is visible only under magnification. The company spent ten years developing the desk-size engraving device, which, it says, performs the delicate operation without affecting either the clarity or the color of the stones. The firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says...