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Coming off last May's Eastern Sprints championships, Harvard's heavyweight and lightweight crews--both consistent contenders for the national title--are looking to get a "Head"-start on next spring's season...
Almost from the day Apple Computer introduced its Macintosh line in 1984, aficionados clamored for a portable version of the popular machine. This week Apple will finally unveil one. The delay was caused by the difficulty of producing a lightweight Mac with a graphics display as vivid as the larger models'. To achieve that clarity, insiders say, the new machine has an active- matrix screen, in which each of its thousands of picture elements will be controlled by an individual transistor. Instead of Apple's famous mouse, the new Mac has a cursor-control device called a trackball mounted...
...Crimson men's lightweight crew didn't have as much success this summer. Harvard, which had swept Yale and Princeton twice during the regular season, fell to both squads at the national championships June 11 in Albany. The lights, missing sevenseat Ted Marple because of an arm problem, finished 2.2 seconds behind the Tigers...
...many big companies are getting out of the business. More than 60 defense operations have been put on the block in the past two months. Other firms are building up cash reserves against an uncertain future by paring back their defense ventures. Minneapolis-based Honeywell, the leading supplier of lightweight torpedoes to the U.S. Navy, has sold three military electronics and communications subsidiaries since last August, and is seeking to shed a fourth. In what has become a military garage sale, bargains aplenty can be found. David Smith, a senior vice president at the Raymond James & Associates brokerage...
Today's manual mowers typically weigh about 20 lbs., less than half their clunky progenitors, thanks to lightweight alloy blades and polymer wheels. But for lawn connoisseurs, the manual mower's greatest advantage is its quality performance, claims Jim Hewitt, American Lawn Mower's vice president for marketing and sales. "A power mower can fragment the end of the grass like the split end of a hair," he explains. "A manual shears the lawn real smooth, like a crew...