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Matt's telepathic powers are useful for getting him out of all sorts of scrapes, including fitful pursuit by the dark forces from Quadris. One of this legion actually enrolls in Crestridge and shows her otherworldly qualities by unnatural rigidity of posture, persistent dilation of the pupils and a refusal to use contractions when speaking Earth talk. For all his telekinetic talents, though, the weirdest thing about The Powers of Matthew Star (NBC, Friday, 8-9 p.m. E.D.T.) is its portrait of adolescent America, all milk snacks and malt shops and homecoming games. Barton is so reminiscent of Donny...
...conceivably to be telecast Oct. 10 by Ted Turner. The owners huddled to try to thwart that and to consider retooling with renegades and scabs (though a few coaches, like Philadelphia's Dick Vermeil, said they were disinclined to soldier on in the company of the French Foreign Legion). As usual, the first problem was getting both sides into the same huddle...
...likely. He has eased America through 3,328 midnights on the Tonight show with wit, some surprises and shrewd, guarded irreverence. It should be clear by now, and from comparison with his legion of imitators and disciples, that he is unique-no longer, perhaps, in what he does, but for how well and how consistently he does it. When the Midwest brought forth Johnny Carson, it produced a bumper crop...
Tecmar is one of a fast-growing legion of companies that manufacture supplementary products for use with the IBM personal computer, including hardware to enhance its performance. According to court papers filed by IBM, Erdman told Tecmar that he and some senior IBM technical personnel were planning to leave the company. Without telling IBM, they had already set up their own computer-equipment company, Bridge Technology, Inc. Erdman proposed to sell Tecmar some 40 designs for add-on products for the IBM personal computer, including plans for a so-called combination board that, among other things, would improve the machine...
...Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan left British control in 1946. The state of Israel was proclaimed two years later. In the Arab-Israeli war that followed, Abdullah's Transjordanian Arab Legion was the only one of seven armies to make a creditable showing against the Israelis...