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...good onion: the Vidalia. Now stores from Manhattan to Miami, Los Angeles to Seattle, sell Vidalias, real and counterfeit. The growers and the Chamber of Commerce here say the real Vidalia is raised within a 35-mile radius of Vidalia. Growers who belong to the Chamber's tag program produce onions that are graded and approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and bear a tag with the trademark Yumion. The grower's name, address and telephone number appear on the tag. To accept a bag of onions without all this pedigreed labeling, according to Grower Jack Todd...
First they start phasing out the classic Army Jeep in favor of a zippier modern vehicle. Now, if the Soldiers' Data Tag Task Force at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis has its way, the G.I.'s stamped metal dog tag will be replaced by a plastic wafer that only a computer can read and only an engineer could love...
...prototype, developed by Datakey Inc., located near Minneapolis, is about the same size as an old-fashioned dog tag. Saw-toothed on the edges and made of chocolate-colored plastic, it contains an embedded magnetic bit on which information about a soldier can be electronically recorded and, as needed, scanned by means of a portable microcomputer. Carrying the scanning device into the field, a medic could review a wounded soldier's complete medical history before administering drugs; a platoon leader might check out a soldier's pay or disciplinary record...
...Olympic Sales in downtown Los Angeles last week, an Atari home computer that cost $630 three years ago carried a price tag of $77.95. At Lechmere Sales in Cambridge, Mass., Texas Instruments micros that retailed for $525 in 1981 could be had for less than $100. Gemco stores in California were selling Commodore 64 computers for $199 each, two-thirds off their price of six months ago. In Chicago, K mart was unloading tiny Timex Sinclair 1000s, listed last year at $99.95, for $29.97 each...
...paraded in front of their applauding ancestors. One junior, who as the offspring of a '58er has been experiencing the ritual from the inside, reports that at the usually stony Freshman. Union the serves are suddenly calling him by his first name (reading it off the colour-coded tag on his lapel) and asking him how large a portion he wants...