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...network under its new owner will probably be trimmer and tougher. It will be watched by everyone in the industry, just as it was during its dazzling 1970s rise. ABC may still have a thing or two to teach its broadcast brothers...
Black & Decker, founded in 1910, has long experience with battery-powered tools. Astronauts carried its portable drills to the moon. In the mid-1970s the company introduced a power handle with drill, flashlight, hedge-trimmer and vacuum attachments. The product failed, though, because consumers often forgot to recharge the batteries. But when the handle was joined permanently to the vacuum alone, a success was born...
...feather light once more, and ultralight Australia II, weighing 5,000 lbs. less than Liberty, took to them like a seagull riding the thermals. She beat the American boat by 3 min. 14 sec., the largest margin rung up by a foreign challenger since 1871. John Marshall, the mainsheet trimmer on Liberty, said after the race, "There is a speed difference in these two yachts like I have never seen. Australia II is something new, very thoughtful and very exciting." Asked how he spent the day off after his first loss, Conner replied, "I worried." After that race Conner even...
...times are changing, and so are the kids. Realizing that thin is in and fitness is the fashion, the Campbell Soup Co. has made its pudgy pixies taller, trimmer and more athletic. The transformation is part of the company's drive to convince the yogurt-and-vitamin crowd that soup from a can is as nutritious as anything found in a health-food store. As part of the effort, Campbell is sponsoring the U.S. figure-skating team and has managed to get its products designated the "official soups" of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The new, thinner...
...suburban housewives whose station wagons are not quite big enough for a Cub Scout den or a Little League team. For small-fry passengers, the step up into the Voyager/Caravan will only be 15 in., compared with 23 in. for a typical van. Unlike most vans, Chrysler's trimmer model will fit into a standard-size garage. The price of a Voyager/Caravan will range from $8,500 for a no-frills model to $12,000 for deluxe version equipped with such options as power windows and air conditioning...