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...should realize that my wife is not a rock 'n' roller or a pop singer but the queen of song...
...specialized libraries in particular, the only answer to suffocation by paper is automation, which runs from the crudest idea to the most dazzling concept of the sophisticated mind. In the Detroit Public Library, book procurement is speeded up by sending boys whizzing down the 250-ft.-long stacks on roller skates. On the other hand, scientists dream that one day a scholar will be able to quiz a regional computer by telephone from his office; whereupon the answer, perhaps from a paper by a foreign colleague, will bounce off an orbiting communications satellite first into a simultaneous translator and then...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The North American Roller-Skating Championships in Lincoln, Neb., and the World Professional Target Diving Championship in Las Vegas...
...example, is strictly liable for injuries to bystanders. But except in the case of food and drink, the doctrine has never applied until recently to normal sales transactions. Now it is being rapidly extended to cover the sale of almost any product that has some potential danger-from roller skates to airplanes. A key precedent in this process occurred in 1960 after a New Jersey driver slammed his new car into a brick wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge was unable to find evidence of negligence by either manufacturer or driver, he held...
...Carpet. For Myer Schine, who is so secretive that he does not even disclose his age (73), the sale topped an acquisitive career that began when he was 26. With savings from jobs as candy butcher and dress salesman, he bought a roller rink in Gloversville, N.Y., parlayed the profits into a chain of properties. Many real estate insiders speculated last week that the aging Schine sold out because he was hard-pressed to find successors as sharp as himself within his immediate family...