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Spawned by a violent storm that stretched from Canada to Texas, a pack of killer tornadoes rolled from Wisconsin to New York last Friday, leaving hundreds injured and at least 86 dead, 60 of them in Pennsylvania. The twister knocked out power lines and flattened scores of houses and small factories. In some places, the winds were accompanied by hailstones the size of golf balls. It was the worst tornado disaster since 1974, when a rogue storm ravaged the South and Midwest and took 315 lives...
...were cumbersome contraptions that weighed 20 pounds and used seven-inch tape reels. But in a field where smaller is usually better, tapes have steadily declined in size. Last week Dictaphone introduced the smallest yet: an office dictating system with a hand-held unit about the size of a pack of 100-mm cigarettes and a tape cassette hardly bigger than a commemorative postage stamp. The Picocassette, as it is called, weighs three grams and can hold 60 minutes of dictation on a tape that moves a glacial nine-tenths of a centimeter per second. The tape is about...
Economic woes in two of country's strongholds, the farm states and the energy belt, have forced many fans to cut back their entertainment spending. Only the biggest stars, notably Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, still pack large concert halls. Other musicians who were earning as much as $25,000 a night are now getting $8,500. All this has hog-tied Nashville's style. Says Tandy Rice, the chairman of the Top Billing booking agency: "A bunch of artists rushed out to buy big, fancy buses during the boom, and I think Nashville may become the biggest used...
...nation entertains at home is also changing. The time when a host or hostess stocked up on whiskey for the winter, gin and tonic in summer, some bottles of white wine and a six-pack of beer year-round is gone. "I've had three cocktail parties recently," says Doris Yaffe, fashion and publicity < director for Saks Fifth Avenue in Boston. "I can't tell you how much liquor I was left with." The nation's caterers have seen hardliquor sales drop from more than half to less than one-quarter of their business. New York City Caterer Donald Bruce...
Only the first frame scene tells us a bit about Rosaleen's family background. At the beginning of the movie, as Rosaleen sleeps, her sister calls her a "pest." Rosaleen twitches a bit so when her sister gets mauled by a pack of ravenous wolves early on, the vindictiveness of Rosaleen's character suddenly surfaces...