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Since they were first introduced 14 months ago as a kind of executive toy, pocket calculators have amazed their own inventors by appealing to a wide range of consumers, including many whose most pressing known mathematical need is the totaling of bridge scores. Originally marketed mostly by office-equipment firms, the electronic gadgets are now found in countless department stores, photo marts, gift shops and other mass retail outlets. No fewer than 50 U.S. firms have started making mini-calculators, which perform the four standard mathematical functions instantaneously, yet are small enough to fit inside a man's suitcoat...
...unit. Further price cuts are expected after the Christmas shopping season; some retailers estimate that by next summer the cheaper models will sell for as little as $35 to $40. A price cut of that size could clobber the small companies that brought out the first pocket calculators, since most are mere assemblers and must buy parts from a major supplier...
Better Luck. What remains is an enervating epic about a young man, unpromising at school, whose parents did not pay him quite enough attention. Since Young Winston attempts to be a kind of vest-pocket spectacle, there are also a couple of the battles in which he fought (a set-to in the Sudan, a Boer skirmish). Attenborough stages them with all the fury of a grade school recess. He has better luck with the actors, perhaps because he is an actor himself. Ward is credible in the thorny role of Winston as a young man, Shaw superb...
...trick for the quarterback is to recognize a zone forming while he is retreating into the pocket. In the case of Baltimore's rotating zone, the essential key for Namath was the way the two Colt safeties reacted at the snap of the ball-by bolting to the left. Joe and the Jets tried to counter the zone by using a slot formation (see diagram), in which one wide receiver was slotted inside another on the right side, while the tight end was split wide to the left. When Namath dropped back to pass, the outside receiver, Don Maynard...
Congress has tried to make the bill palatable to the economy-minded White House, specifically permitting the Administration to spend less than the authorized funds. Nonetheless, at week's end lawmakers feared that President Nixon would hold the measure, unsigned, until Congress adjourns in mid-October. Such a pocket veto would not give Congress a chance to override the President's action. If the bill is killed, warns Senator Muskie, "Before Congress can act again, more precious time will be lost in a battle where time is running out on our future...