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...midweek Italian police arrested Pasqua Aurora Belli, 34, a former schoolteacher, and Flavio Amico, 26, a printer, as suspects in the Dozier kidnaping, but their exact role in the crime was not clear. Meanwhile, police were kept busy with a number of spurious tips, including a telephone message to the Beirut office of the Italian news agency ANSA. The caller, speaking in Arabic, claimed that Dozier had been executed and that his body could be found in a small but unnamed Italian village. Police found nothing, and the message was considered to be a hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Looking for General Dozier | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

With a $300,000 loan, for which Company President James A. Kollar had to put up personal collateral, Koltanbar bought an Applicon design system with a computer, two work terminals and a printer. Once installed, the system began to produce immediate savings. Soon draftsmen working from a designer's sketch, who previously needed 120 hours to produce a particular polished drawing, were knocking them off in a day. A major project that once would have taken 190 to 220 weeks could now be done in 80. Though the company is producing more work than ever, its number of employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Productivity Booster | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Sony does not expect the Mavica to replace the conventional camera any time soon. One barrier will certainly be its price. The camera is expected to sell for about $650, and the disc player will be another $220. A printer that can produce permanent pictures will cost as much as the player. But the discs, which can be used over and over, will cost only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sony's New Electronic Wizardry | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter uses one. So do Novelists John Hersey and Richard Condon. Every month more writers are discarding their pencils and typewriters for "word processors"-technical jargon for small computers with typewriter-like keyboards, electronic screens for scanning and manipulating text, units to store information, and high-speed printers. Like all other modern products, they come in a range of prices, from Apple's no-frills model at about $2,500 to the luxurious new CPT 8100. Cost of the machine, with a twin-head Rotary VII Printer that can switch instantaneously from roman to italic type or from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plugged-ln Prose | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings), 33, switched on when his exhausted electric portable began throwing keys across the room. Says Brashler of his $8,400 IBM Displaywriter: "It takes the drudgery out of writing. I correct a mistake on the screen in a second, and the printer retypes the page in three seconds. No more retyping the whole page by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plugged-ln Prose | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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