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...biggest drawback to processors, their size, is shrinking. Sony, master of the mini, recently introduced a 3-lb. briefcase-size keyboard unit capable of storing text to be printed out later. A few stubborn novelists and historians may resist until the final pencil stub and the last typewriter ribbon, but in the final chapter, the processor will win. As Cerf concludes, "I have seen the future, and it glows." -By J.D. Reed. Reported...
...DEPTH--and the myriad valid justifications--suggests that surmounting the bitterness will be hard, much harder than stretching out some mythical, folksinger hand of brotherhood, much harder than pinning a green ribbon on the lapel, much harder than announcing that you will begin to consider Blacks for faculty positions--even with the best intentions. "We are, by reason of the lives we have led, a suspicious people. We are the children of suspicious people, as were our grandparents and their grandparents. This has been so with us even back to those people most of call foreparents. Now, if we think...
Instead of stocks and real estate, SAMA'S favorite investments are super-safe U.S. Treasury bills and notes, of which the bank now holds about $30 billion. Much of the rest of the agency's surplus is in short-term deposits at some 80 different blue-ribbon Western banks...
...Jazz Singer, only to lose the film role-and a place in movie history -to Al Jolson. He went on to produce a string of Hollywood movie musicals before hitting his stride as a master of ceremonies and fund raiser. A superpatriot who liked to wear a ribbon-bedecked U.S.O. "uniform" of his own devising, Jessel boasted friendships with five Presidents and took credit for inventing two American institutions: the celebrity "roast" and the Bloody Mary cocktail. A fixture at three decades of Hollywood funerals (he delivered eulogies), he left behind his own epitaph: "I tell you here from...
...coach KIT MORRIS, accompanied his father's squad to a spring break training dinner at Cambridge's renowned bar and eatery. Charlie's Kitchen--only two days after his arrival into the world...During the 16-5 shellacking of MIT Wednesday afternoon, each softball team member wore a green ribbon in memory of the children slain in Atlanta. The players plan to wear the ribbons in every game until the Atlanta case is solved...