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West 57th, named for the Manhattan street where CBS News is based, establishes its pace in the briskly edited montage that opens each show. Phone ringing in a CBS control booth. Someone shouting something about a tape not rolling. Lots of quick camera cuts showing hubbub in the booth spliced with shots from the week's stories. The thumping music swells into a jazzy roar as Correspondent Jane Wallace dashes up a flight of stairs. The other three correspondents (Bob Sirott, Meredith Vieira, John Ferrugia) are presented in quick succession, getting out of chairs and talking on phones...
...there were varying explanations for the small scab on the right side of the President's nose. It was described by White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as the result of "skin irritation, a gathering of skin, a piling up of skin," possibly aggravated by "an allergic reaction" to adhesive tape that had held a naso-gastric tube in place following Reagan's surgery last month for colon cancer. Actually, it was a bit more than that, as the President himself finally admitted. "I had, well, I guess for want of a better word, a pimple," he explained last week...
...hours. A novice can write one in 20 hours with assistance and 30 hours without assistance." The perpetrators are frequently disaffected engineers and computer technicians. Says Security Consultant Sanford Sherizen of Natick, Mass.: "A lot of people grew up in data processing, spent years holding computers together with Scotch tape, putting in extra hours, and in recent years of the industry's growth they don't feel they have got an adequate reward...
...dipping to a value of 203 yen in Tokyo, the lowest closing level since February 1981. The decline is already showing some concrete results. Japan's Sony announced last week that it plans to raise its U.S. prices by 5% to 12% on everything from TV sets to magnetic tape. That should make it easier for U.S. firms to compete with Sony, but it is unlikely to leave consumers happy...
Videotapes of business books are among the fastest-growing offspring of the VCR revolution. More than 50 of these taped tomes are now for sale at prices ranging from $475 to about $1,500. The works include such management best sellers as In Search of Excellence, The One Minute Manager and What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School. A typical tape is 60 to 90 minutes long, and some come with instructional pamphlets...