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...sprightly competitors, Apple and Compaq, may be less affected by the new IBM products. Houston-based Compaq has successfully marketed a portable version of the desktop PC and just introduced a high-speed office model called the DeskPro. Apple meanwhile has been enjoying rapid sales of the updated version of the seven-year-old Apple II called the He, while 90,000 Macintoshes have been shipped since it was introduced seven months ago. As both the Compaq portable and the Apple machines are significantly less expensive than the new IBM computers, they are not expected to feel much direct pressure...
...beach legal wars are largely an outgrowth of rapid coastline development. In Texas, for instance, there was little protest from landowners when the Open Beaches Act was passed in 1959, because at that time the Texas Gulf Coast was sparsely developed. Widespread construction of private homes, hotels and high-rise condominiums has come only in the past ten or 15 years. The new objections, in the wake of Hurricane Alicia, are nothing but "the arrogance of affluence," says Assistant Attorney General Ken Cross. "Building on a beachfront is a gamble with nature. When they take that gamble and put their...
...making in the hands of planners and public officials," he said, "tends to inhibit individual initiative and sometimes cripples the ability of men and women to work toward a better future." Buckley cited the examples of Hong Kong and South Korea, in which increases in population were accompanied by rapid economic growth because, he said, the private sector has been allowed to flourish...
...Chicago as the hub, was beginning to turn farmers into a cohesive market. Montgomery Ward had published a catalog for them since the 1870s, but Richard Sears perfected the technique beyond anyone's imagination. Using the expanding rail system that he knew so well and capitalizing on the rapid growth of post-Civil War America, Sears turned his catalog into a powerful link between makers of goods and customers...
Nothing keynoted the swimming competition or the week itself more sharply than the women's 100-meter freestyle race, the first finals in the rapid white-water stream of them. When a Swiss timepiece was unable to choose between Carrie Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead, duplicate gold medals were struck, and naturally those two were immediately dubbed the Gold Dust Twins. From their wide expressions on the unusually crowded victory stand, neither swimmer minded the company or gave much thought to absent East Germans. Regarding the boycott generally, the athletes know where the asterisks go, and will cheerfully tell anyone else...