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...Bradshaw, that future is back to the business the company knows best: entertainment and communications. Both are fields in which RCA was an early and proud pioneer in everything from network programming to color television and space satellites. Says he: "The strength is still there. We have enormous strength in marketing; we are a leader in satellite communications; we have strength in entertainment programming. Match all that against the communications explosion that is coming in the 1980s, and we have got some tremendous opportunities...
DIED. Margaret Culkin Banning, 90, prolific fiction writer of 40 books and hundreds of stories on changing lifestyles; in Tryon, N.C. Banning was a pioneer in choosing such topics as mixed marriages, birth control and interracial relationships as subjects for pop fantasy...
...surprising, only ironic, that the unemployed should take such an uncharitable view of their own ordeal. Actually, they have merely carried into joblessness, and applied to themselves, the attitudes inculcated in them by workaday society. The American view of joblessness has never been overly sympathetic. Pioneer America flaunted its punitive sentiment in a vulgar aphorism: "Root, hog, or die!" While that position has been softened a bit (witness unemployment benefits that have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary...
Much of their information comes from an unmanned Pioneer spacecraft. Since it began orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version...
...turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first) for his performance in The Towering Inferno. And last year he took a wife: Pioneer Jockey Robyn Smith...