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While the Lisa has been called a technological marvel, only 6,000 have been sold, fewer than expected. The main reason is that Apple has been unable to break into the corporate market. At a price of nearly $10,000, the machine was clearly aimed at the professional user. But IBM, with its huge sales force, is particularly strong in that market, and Apple's 100 salespersons were no match. Even after this week's cut, the Lisa may still be too expensive for large corporate customers. Explains Kurt Schweer, a vice president of Crocker National Bank...
...prodigal a life-style in so protected a land makes for some rich ironies. It was said that upon first receiving television sets, tribal elders would huddle in front of The Virginian and marvel that there could be so many horses in Brunei...
Neither the American yacht nor the challenger has yet been picked. But there is little doubt that when the two square off in the waters of Rhode Island Sound on Sept. 13, the foreign contender will be a white-hulled marvel called Australia II that has set the yachting world back on its scuppers. The Australians seem to be doing everything right, beginning with a spectacular success at what has always been the heart of the American game: building yachts that are technologically superior to those of all their challengers. Measuring 64 ft. 7 in. from its snub-nosed...
...gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from ear to ear at the marvel of it all. Had Reynolds been around for his own funeral services, he surely would have displayed the same amusement and asked the same question: "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing...
...system is not intended to create a brilliant elite. Stanford Researcher Thomas P. Rohlen, who has written a forthcoming book on the subject, says that the marvel of Japanese education lies in "shaping a whole population to a standard inconceivable in the U.S." Also inconceivable in the U.S., however, is the degree of centralization. All standards and textbook approvals, as well as major funding, come from the national government. "Japan is interested in forming a national culture," says Columbia Comparative Education Professor Harold Noah. This is not solely the result of Japan's homogeneity and island isolation. Britain...