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...name of the state illuminated by the square of light. In an electronic version of roulette, bets are placed on a separate board and a light square moves around a simulated wheel before coming to rest on one of 32 numbers. Magnavox claims that playing Odyssey games will "improve motor skills." It does indeed take quick reflexes to play the games well. In electronic hockey, for example, players must not only move their "sticks" up and down but also manipulate an "english control," which can simulate slap shots and shift the direction of the "puck" as it crosses the center...
...making to home building. A partial list: Sony is building a $1,000,000 color-TV plant in San Diego, and Nisshin Food Products Co. has put up a noodle factory in Gardena, Calif. Matsushita Electric is about to begin producing color-TV sets in Puerto Rico, and Toyota Motor is considering building an auto assembly plant there. Last month Mitsubishi Estate formed a joint venture with Morgan Stanley & Co. to build new communities in the U.S. The first will probably be a 1,000-home, $30 million development near Williamsburg, Va. Several states have sent delegations to Tokyo seeking...
Encouraged, Wright decided to stay in the U.S. To reduce costs, Wright trimmed Zenith's payroll in the past year by nearly 8%. He also got much help from John Nevin, an innovative cost cutter who left a Ford Motor vice-presidency to become Zenith's president last May. Together, Wright and Nevin sold off marginally profitable lines in order to concentrate on consumer electronics. Last-week Wright added to that line by acquiring the U.S. distributor of electronic watches made by Switzerland's Movado, a firm that Zenith already controls...
...Terminal Man, the near future is practically upon us. The theme is mind control through psychosurgery, today hardly in the realm of science fiction (TIME, April 3). Crichton's surgeons plant 40 minuscule electrodes in the brain of Harry Benson, a psycho-motor epileptic whose fits turn him into a homicidal maniac. The electrodes, powered by a tiny nuclear battery implanted in Harry's shoulder, deliver small electrical impulses which check the epileptic fit at its onset...
Finally, after three years of frustrating negotiations, Iowa Governor Robert Ray cut through the red tape by devising a neat bureaucratic stroke of his own. In his capacity as commander in chief of the Iowa National Guard, Ray ordered all of its 95 aircraft and 1,625 motor vehicles indefinitely immobilized except in the event of a national emergency. "I am not satisfied," he said, "that what has happened to the Tjernagels and the McCarvilles could not happen to other lowans...