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...perfect mark in the technical aspects of his skating vanished when he fell on his final jump with only seven seconds remaining in his five-minute program. He was attempting a double axle directly into a sitspin-a maneuver that has not been done in the Nationals for thirteen years...
Petkevich completely over-shadowed second-place Ken Shelley, and sixteen-year-old Gordie McKellan, who came in third. Petkevich won all seven first place votes in the compulsories on Thursday and thirteen of the fourteen votes cast in "Technical" and "Composition and Style" Friday...
...Rather than try to develop a revolutionary communications system, the cassette industry has chosen to try to set up a system by which each piece of information is sold bit by bit. And they have not even been able to do that successfully; at present there are at least thirteen different video cartridge/ cassette type systems, all of which are incompatible (see chart). All manufacturers seem to echo the voice of Gerald Citro, Marketing Manager of North American Philips, who says in Variety, "Standardization will help avoid confusion on the part of the consumer, reduce the price, and encourage...
Equally disturbing is the fact that the industry is determined to market its product in as closed a form as possible. Only four of the thirteen major videocassette/cartridge units are being marketed with record capability, thus wasting what is probably the single most attractive and versatile feature of the unit. From a piece in Radical Software by Frank Gillette: "Ostensibly, CBS has fused a film cartridge and television monitor for purposes best rationalized by image resolution and the range of information already committed to available film. This is a flimsy excuse. The research time and money represented by EVR would...
...Jean Mayer (MAY ARE) is Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was born in Paris in 1920 and served as a field artillery officer in the French Army during World War II. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and thirteen other wartime citations. In December 1969 Mayer chaired the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health...