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...basics, stripped away the nonessentials and optimized the performance of the 50 or so most frequently used commands. Says Ben Anixter, vice president at Advanced Micro Devices, a Sunnyvale, Calif., firm that is introducing its first RISC chip in two weeks: "It is like going from the complicated old piston airplane engine to the turbojet...
...those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel originated during the Civil War as a disparaging term for folks from the Carolina pine forests.) Few knew what the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons were when a pro basketball team played under that name. (They were players owned by Fred Zollner, who also happened to own a piston factory in Fort Wayne.) The early vogue of naming a team for a person seems to have come to an end with Paul Brown, the original coach...
...quarter- and semi-finals, but Diego Armando Maradona, 25, won soccer's World Cup for Argentina last week by not scoring a single point. Throughout the final match against West Germany before a Mexico City crowd of nearly 115,000, the short, burly superstar with the pumping-piston legs played the decoy, drawing suffocating attention from as many as three defenders whenever he got the ball. A foul against him led to the first score, and with only six minutes remaining in the game, Maradona angled a perfect pass to Midfielder Jorge Burruchaga, who made a brilliant...
Named to the A.B.A. All-Rookie team in St. Louis during the last premerger year, Carr next moved to Detroit. No Piston was more aptly surnamed, and none had a finer sense of mischief. Tweaking a fashion of the times, Carr announced that he was changing his name to Abdul Automobile. But after three years of only personal prosperity, he felt somberly incomplete. "I was second or third in minutes played, averaging 18 or 19 points a game. Statistically everything was right. But I wanted to be a winner. I went free agent and, though New York offered the most...
...pump version of Aim. Procter & Gamble started test-marketing a Crest pump in August. Packaging experts predict a tough battle over which brand's pump design is superior. Crest's model, for example, uses valves to extrude the paste, while Colgate's design has a piston mechanism. The new containers generally cost 20% more than tubes. Even so, the companies think they will have far more success than the last time they tried a radical departure from the tube. In the late 1950s an attempt to market toothpaste in aerosol cans was a bomb...