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This sequel to Star Wars, which easily toppled Jaws as the most successful movie in Hollywood history, opens in Britain and in 125 theaters around the U.S. on May 21, and that is not a millisecond too soon for those children, everybody under the age of 90, who have been waiting since 1977 to find out what happens next. Three expensive science fiction films-Star Trek, The Black Hole and Alien-have opened in the past year, but none has claimed the public's affection like the adventure fantasy of Producer-Creator George Lucas. The question...
...heroics to come and a change in the fortunes of the Series. Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles, acquired in a trade with Cleveland before the 1973 season, made a spectacular diving catch of a line drive. In the next game, back in Yankee Stadium, Nettles showed he had the millisecond reflexes and cannon arm to be ranked with Brooks Robinson at third. When a weary-armed Ron Guidry turned shaky on the mound, Nettles stifled Dodger rally after rally. Any one of his four sprawling, crawling, flying, levitating plays would have made an ordinary third baseman's season...
Beneath a small honeycombed disc on the front of the camera is a thin, gold-coated plastic foil diaphragm that acts as both transmitter and receiver of sound. The diaphragm emits a millisecond "chirp" that bounces back from the object aimed at and, in a series of steps that take a fraction of a second, fixes the lens at the precise focus, from 10 in. to infinity. Not an accessory, the device is an integral part of the camera, which will go on sale late this year. List price: about $280, v. $233 for the regular SX-70, which produces...
...Baseman Joe Morgan comes to bat, his eyes widen noticeably, a palpable sign to the man on the mound that Morgan is studying him with the intensity of a leopard crouching in a tree. On the bases, he measures the movements of the game just as keenly: taking the millisecond advantage, then streaking toward a stolen base, judging the parabola of a teammate's hit before springing around the bases, sliding in just ahead of the throw. Joe Morgan, the National League's Most Valuable Player for two years in a row, is surely the hardest...
...this country," says Alex Haley, "we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have?where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people...