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These are the humble makings of a revolution in progress: Macaroni and cheese. Timex watches. Volunteer work. Insulated underwear. Savings accounts. Roseanne. Domestic beer. Local activism. Sleds. Pajamas. Sentimental movies. Primary colors. Mixed-breed dogs. Bicycles. Cloth diapers. Shopping at Wal- Mart. Small-town ways. Iceberg lettuce. Family reunions. Board games. Hang- it-yourself wallpaper. Push-it-yourself lawn mowers. Silly Putty...
TAKES A CLICKING The quest for Dick Tracy-level technology has reached a watershed with the new Timex Internet Messenger watch ($99), which is capable of receiving (but not sending) e-mail and pages, plus news, sports and weather headlines fresh from the Internet. It sets itself automatically, compensating for time-zone changes and daylight saving time. Best of all, it's surprisingly slim. With all that going on, you would expect it to be the size of a hand grenade...
...corporate culture that cared for its workers during those years between wedding and Winnebago? A company took you in after college and for 40 years gave you Christmas bonuses and ignored your martini breath after lunch. In exchange, at 65 you left with a Rolex or a gold-plated Timex, depending on pay scale...
...world of paging, Motorola has teamed up with Timex to produce the world's first wristwatch alphanumeric pager. More convenient than clipping a standard pager to your belt, the new $130 Beepwear offers a choice between a silent flashing alarm or an audio tone to signal incoming pages. Right now, only the California Good Guys chain is selling the Beepwear line, but these watches will work in any metro area that offers Motorola FLEX coverage; talk to your paging company for details...
DIED. JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, 89, newscaster turned pitchman; in Sarasota, Florida. Swayze found fame in 1949 "hopscotching the world for headlines" on Camel News Caravan, a network-news prototype. The Kansan later attained pop icondom hawking Timex watches, the ones that would "take a licking and keep on ticking...