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...Ziff publications (Backpacker, Boating, Car and Driver, Cycle, Flying, Modern Bride, Popular Photography, Skiing, Skiing Trade News, Stereo Review, The Runner and Yachting) are a windfall. In one stroke, CBS added a dozen established moneymakers with a combined circulation of an estimated 4.7 million to its publishing operation. The company already owned eleven titles, including the Sunday newspaper supplement Family Weekly (circ. 13 million), Woman's Day (circ. 6.9 million), Field & Stream (circ. 2 million) and Mechanix Illustrated (circ. 1.6 million). Ziff called CBS "a great new home" for his magazines. A delighted CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman, who helped...
...Stereo radio, though still a novelty, was gaining listeners. Porter says he thinks "the ability to broadcast in FM stereo was a real plus. At that time, stereo equipment was being made that was affordable to college students and we were able to be a part of that time...
Robert Rabkin, a surgeon from Sausalito, Calif., considered himself a pretty savvy consumer-until he decided to buy a personal computer. Nothing he had learned while buying cars or stereo rigs prepared him for the trauma of shopping for a microcomputer. Not only was the equipment expensive ($2,500 and up for a complete system) and dauntingly complex, but the manufacturers seemed to be in a state of constant turmoil. "I didn't know what I was getting into," says Rabkin. "I was afraid anything I might buy would be obsolete within six months." For now, the doctor...
...vehicle that an older Bond could love. In Birmingham, England, last week, the firm unveiled its Tickford Lagonda limousine, an auto that will have a thrill-seeking top speed of 140 m.p.h. With a base price of $120,000 that can rise to more than $150,000 when video, stereo and picnic-table options are added, the car will be one of the world's most expensive...
...beat 27 other women in a modeling and talent contest to become the Penthouse Pet of the of the Year and be featured nude this month--just before the second installment of the controversial Vanessa Williams pictures. Starion also won $1 million worth of sable furs, jewelry, cars, stereo equipment and other prizes...