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...beaten Gillette in the lighter skirmish, the battle between the two companies will rage on. The firms are equally fierce competitors in the throwaway pen and razor markets. While Bic's pen outsells Gillette's Write Bros, model, the Gillette twin-blade disposable Good News shaver holds an edge over the Bic single-blade entry. Gillette is also the leading producer of blades and razors in the U.S. and Canada and most of the rest of the world. In the bathroom battle at least, the American company continues to clean...
...black put to death since 1967 and the first U.S. prisoner ever legally killed by intravenous injection. With the death-row census now above 1,100 and rising annually by more than 100, it seemed that the pace of U.S. executions could soon quicken. Says Texas District Judge Doug Shaver: "1983 will bring some more. So many on death row are ripe. They've had years there and have been through all the [legal] processes. And this humane way," says ex-Prosecutor Shaver of death-by-injection, "will make it more palatable...
...prolonged acquaintance, it shows every sign of being the brightest, freshest television caper since Columbo. Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) is an ambitious, adventure-hungry private eye whose phone never rang until she invented a partner who was, naturally, male (she got his name from marrying an electric shaver to a football team) and who would nominally solve all her cases. Clients flocked. Then an incessantly self-admiring bunko artist figured out Laura's canny fraud and threatened to expose her unless she let him become Steele, with appropriate office space and elaborate perks...
Teleconference Calls. If Selby Shaver, communications director for Allstate Insurance Co. in Northbrook, III., urgently needs to convey some complicated information to a regional office in Menlo Park, Calif, he sometimes holds a teleconference. Shaver merely steps from his office into a room equipped with television cameras and shows his distant colleagues what he means during a televised phone call. Says he: "It's the next best thing to being there...
...Harvard by opening a women's leg shaving service in their Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provide their non-pront service to at least 20 customers...