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...Jobs is deft at dealing with his peers and elders in commerce, a comforting combination of overnight plutocrat and shill for a new gold rush, he is positively hypnotic when he takes the computer gospel to the young. Jobs is youthful enough to fit right in and both bright enough and rich enough to get respect. Certainly, he does not live like a superstar. His pleasant home in Los Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master...
...News Overnight. TV's wittiest, toughest, least snazzy news strip. The late hour (1:30 a.m. E.S.T.) allows for lengthy and caustic reports, sutured by two droll, articulate anchors: Lloyd Dobyns (now succeeded by Bill Schechner) and Linda Ellerbee...
...secure credit. Then the government-controlled Banco do Brasil, which finances the nation's international trade, began drawing down cash, estimated at nearly $2 billion, that it ordinarily keeps on deposit with major international banks. When that was exhausted, the Brazilian bank was forced to turn to overnight borrowings to stay in business...
DIED. Steve Gordon, 44, cinematic overnight sensation whose second screenplay and directorial debut, the fluffy screwball comedy Arthur, grossed more than $ 130 million at the box office and guffaws of critical approval; of a heart attack; in New York City. A writer of TV commercials and sitcoms, he could not quite believe his Arthurian success, saying last year, "I haven't even started my next screenplay, and already it doesn't work. I just think I fooled them once...
Moreover, Las Vegas depends on overnight guests for the bulk of its business, while day trippers predominate in Atlantic City, and in such numbers that during 1981 the city pulled ahead of Florida's Walt Disney World to become the most popular single travel resort in the U.S. Says Lee Isgur, a respected gambling-industry analyst with the New York City investment firm of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins Inc.: "Basically, the eastern half of the country has discovered the excitement and glamour of legalized casino gambling. Millions of people can now drive two or three hours at the most...