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...cash were stolen-and Tarek promptly bought a new house in a tiny, rich enclave called Golden Beach. At first Tarek's breaches of decorum were merely eccentric: he commuted to Florida International University, 20 miles away, in his helicopter, and draped his estate's palm trees with Christmas lights. But then, in violation of zoning laws, he built a guardhouse for his rifle-toting security force and gave his horses the run of the yard...
...fueled by inflation"). Trillin finds that American satirists live in "constant danger of being blindsided by the truth." His twofold defense against that danger: to reduce large questions to the microscopic (President Reagan named as his Surgeon General a doctor once known as "the Tummy Tuck King of Palm Beach") and to enlarge the trivial to the grotesque ("Am I the only person who favors a law mandating life imprisonment for anyone who performs in public as a mime...
...jockeying for a slice of Osborne's success. Last week, at the mammoth National Computer Conference in Houston, at least a dozen U.S. and foreign manufacturers were hawking portable computers that fit on the decks of pleasure boats, under airline seats, into attaché cases-even in the palm of the hand. Four of the new machines were Osborne imitations featuring built-in video, detachable typewriterlike keyboards and luggage-type carrying handles. While several models improved on the Osborne's eye-straining 5-in. screen, only one-manufactured by Non-Linear Systems Inc. in Solana Beach, Calif...
Smaller firms like Axlon, IXO and Lexicon are coming out with palm-size terminals that have little or no memory but full keyboards and telephone jacks, so that users can contact data banks like Dow Jones from telephones anywhere. If brokerage houses and banking chains will cooperate, and if the Government will change its regulations, such machines could be used to move money from one account to another or order securities without going through brokers or tellers. Predicts Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell: "People will not pay bills by check within five years...
...final night in Palm Springs, Cooney acknowledged that he had not looked very sharp sparring the past few days. "I don't know what's wrong with me. No boost. I'll snap out of it." Angry scrapes under his right eye and across the hump of his nose?from roughhousing in his hotel room, not in the ring?had obviously been hindering him. To protect against aggravating the cut and necessitating another postponement, he had to wear a cumbersome headgear with a blinding nose strip. He sometimes looked worse than slow, full of doubts...