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Reagan's glen plaid has good lineage. The fabric was manufactured by the British firm of Illingworth, Morris & Co. Ltd., which also furnishes the interiors of Rolls-Royce autos, the Pope's vestments and the covers for the tennis balls used at Wimbledon. White House Aide Morgan Mason (son of Actor James Mason) used to be executive director of Illingworth, Morris, and when Friend Nancy Reagan wanted some new suiting for her husband, Mason hustled over some swatches from which the glen plaid was chosen...
...Yukio Imai wanted to change speed, he did not order a crew member to yank the traditional brass-handled lever. Instead, he spoke through a microphone to the ship's computerized engine control, which has a voice synthesizer and recognition device developed by Japan's Sodensha Electronics Ltd. The control device can comprehend eleven verbal commands, from "Full ahead" to "Full astern," given by the captain or two of his officers. To show that an order has been received, the machine repeats it in a flat voice reminiscent of Hal, the talking computer in the movie...
...companies have survived setbacks as stunning as the one that befell Japan's Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd., the maker of Mazda cars and trucks, in the mid-1970s. At the time, nearly half of Mazda's vehicles used the revolutionary Wankel engine, in which a rotor instead of pistons produces the power. When the world oil crisis began in 1973, the gas-guzzling Wankels became a sales disaster because they delivered a maximum of only about 15 miles to the gallon. The company seemed headed for the corporate scrap heap. Recalls one executive: "Every day felt like doomsday...
Another big scorer will be Bally Manufacturing Corp.'s Midway subsidiary. It has sold more than 96,000 Pac-Man arcade games under a licensing arrangement with Namco Ltd. of Japan, and also holds royalty rights to virtually all Pac-Man spinoffs. Coleco Industries of Hartford, Conn., has come out with a battery-run table-top model, while Milton Bradley Co. will be offering a puzzle, a card game and a nonelectronic Pac-Man board game. In addition to a parade of toys, pajamas, lunch boxes and bumper stickers, there will be Hallmark cards and gift wrapping, Dan River...
Prices on the London Metal Exchange then began moving upward, as someone started buying large amounts of tin. At first, no one knew who the buyer was: orders were placed through Marc Rich & Co., a secretive New York commodity trading firm, and executed by Maclaine Watson & Co. Ltd. As the heavy purchases continued, it became apparent that only the world's major producers would have the muscle to control the markets, as well as the financial incentive to risk millions of dollars. Says one industry insider: "The general feeling is that Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand got together and decided...