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Can current television sets be equipped to play recorded programs that could be purchased and stored like so many hi-fi discs? Manufacturers have been competing for a decade to be first to provide a practical answer. Trouble is, both videotapes and films are too expensive to produce for the...
Philips-MCA has taken a different approach. Its aluminum-coated, plastic record, stamped from a master disc that has been etched by a laser beam, is covered with billions of microscopic pits. Variations in pit size encode the video and sound messages. For playback, a sharply focused beam from a...
Professor Rogers, a widow, had been interim president ever since the regents last fall abruptly fired Stephen Spurr, a former graduate dean at the University of Michigan (TIME, Oct. 28). But few on the 42,000-student Austin campus thought she would take over the job permanently. In fact, when...
Officers' Mess. Some of the opposition to Rogers is based on dissatisfaction with the way she ran the university last year. Critics charge that she acted too slowly in making needed appointments and did not communicate with the faculty. (Rogers can communicate well, however, when she wants to. Last...
Some examples of thoroughly commercial promotions: Rich Products Corp., maker of Coffee Rich, offers a "Bicentennial Kit" ("It includes an actual copy of the Declaration of Independence ...") in an ad headlined "Coffee Rich started a revolution in good taste." d-CON insecticide offers six free flag decals or, for $2...