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...town with tennis courts, a soccer field and shops stocked with electric guitars and leather furniture. Officers and chemists in Khun Sa's narcotics army lived in spacious villas with manicured lawns. The warlord himself kept a hilltop aerie outfitted with a television in every room, an elaborate stereo system and a swimming pool. There were even photograph albums of family vacations in Hong Kong. The soldiers also discovered huge caches of weapons, ammunition and communications equipment...
...some exceptional individuals, however, the entrepreneurial spirit never ages. Henry Kloss, 53, founded his first company, Acoustic Research in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 22. It made stereo speakers, and he eventually sold it to his partner. Headstrong and impulsive, Kloss has since gone on to establish three more home electronics firms, including Advent, which is now in receivership. His latest is Kloss Video, which makes large-screen-projection TV sets and was started in 1977. But Kloss may now be too tired for another new venture. Says he: "Each one of those enterprises started with a bare room...
...Bell Labs gave the world the transistor, for which three of its scientists won the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics. It also developed the laser, high-fidelity phonograph records, stereo and sound movies. In 1927, Bell Labs demonstrated the first long-distance, live, television transmission over wires. One of its early computers helped direct antiaircraft fire during World War II and knocked down 76% of Nazi buzz bombs in areas it defended in England. Bell scientists pioneered work in semiconductors, integrated circuits and microchips, all necessary parts of the computer explosion. They have now won a total of seven Nobel...
With the Super Bowl fast approaching, Susan has lapsed into total Forty-Niner adoration. A record that recently arrived in the mail from home entitled, "Go Forty-Niners" blasts from our stereo system constantly. Although we tolerated almost any form of music--from opera to disco--this song has driven all of us away in despair. A cross between hokey Western nasal twanging and weak rock-and-roll, this particular fight song--coined especially for Sunday's big event--boasts cloying lyrics like, "Go Forty-Niners/Take it all the way/You can win the Super Bowl/And keep the trophy...
...North Philadelphia gym he hauls a stereo tape player from the ring to the heavy bag, keeping time to his music. "Don't no trainer ever have to shout 'time' for me," says Joe proudly. "Don't nobody ever have to tell me how much time has gone...