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...strong competitors for the consumer dollar. Against this dim background, Minolta has been a bright performer. The Japanese firm's Maxxum, which focuses automatically and sells for about $350 with a basic lens, has turned Minolta (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $975 million) into the No. 1 producer of 35- mm single-lens reflex (reflected-image) cameras, which account for a third of the worldwide camera market. "This is one of those epochmaking products that come out once in a decade," says Motohiko Kimura, director of research and information for the Japan Camera Industry Association...
...half-hour procedure, performed under local anesthesia, the physician uses a special needle-tipped device to inject rows of tiny dots of black or brown iron-oxide pigment 1 mm into the lids. It is a delicate undertaking, and pigment can inadvertently be put into hair follicles rather than under the skin. Another worry is that the pigment may migrate into the lymphatic system. J. Earl Rathbun, an ophthalmologist at the University of California, San Francisco, has a more mundane concern: "Making sure people know what they want and where they want it, because once...
...said, "If you break your trains one more time, I'll take them away!" So I took his camera and staged a great train wreck, with shots of the trains coming in different directions and shots of little plastic men reacting. Then I could look at my 8-mm film over and over and enjoy the demolition of my trains without the threat of losing them...
...hated school. From age twelve or 13 I knew I wanted to be a movie director, and I didn't think that science or math or foreign languages were going to help me turn out the little 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework. During class I'd draw a little image on the margin of each page of the history or lit. book and flip the pages to make animated cartoons. I did just enough homework to get promoted every year with my friends and not fall to the wrath of my academically minded father. I give...
Ralf Traugott, 32, Lunenburg, Mass., automobile dealer. One of the two initial hijackers, who called himself "Castro," spoke German better than English. When he discovered that Traugott was born in Berlin, "he immediately called out my name and came over to me," recalls Traugott. "He put his 9-mm pistol against my forehead and put a hand grenade against my ear." In German, Castro asked, "Have you fear?" Traugott replied in German, "No, I have no fear." That answer, says Traugott, seemed to surprise Castro, so Traugott added, "O.K., a little bit when you have the gun and the grenade...