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Baseball Hall of Famers Willie McCovey and Duke Snider face prison and fines as high as $250,000 for failing to report income from baseball memorabilia shows. McCovey pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, while Snider admitted conspiracy to defraud the government by filing a false tax return...
...twelve-room house that Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey built for himself in the foothills of Woodside, Calif., is as rangy as the 6-ft. 4-in. former slugger. But McCovey's home is not just big; it also has brains. A central computer links reading lights, kitchen appliances, thermostats and burglar alarms. Heating and air conditioning can be programmed to go on in one room but not another. Sprinklers buried in the lawn start up automatically -- and know enough to shut themselves off when it rains. A robot sweeper cleans the surface of a swimming pool, while infrared...
...McCovey's smart home is more than a celebrity's novelty item. It is part of a fast-growing industry: home automation. The business has been booming for several years in Japan and is catching on among manufacturers in Europe and the U.S. Their goal: to do for the rest of the house what remote controls did for the family TV and VCR. "People are used to sitting in a chair and making things happen across the room," says Roger Dooley, publisher of Electronic House magazine. "The idea of turning lights and appliances on and off automatically is beginning...
...only a few thousand U.S. homes are automated, but the number could rise rapidly. Some 700 smart homes are the work of Unity Systems, the Redwood City, Calif., company that boosted the IQ of McCovey's house. Unity sells Home Managers that can be geared to any climate or life-style, whether it means melting the snow off the porches of Connecticut mansions or heating hot tubs in California villas. Gail and Drew Arvay of Cupertino, Calif., rely on a Unity system to run their household while they pursue dual careers. Both of their school-age children and all their...
...heart stops as Ralph Terry (having thrown that pitch to Mazeroski just two years earlier) almost loses another Series in the 7th game, but Bobby Richardson stabs McCovey's screamer. Hey, Roger Craig even pitched for the Bums of Brooklyn, so I can go for San Francisco from both sides of New York's National League past...