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...PERSONAL COMPUTER CAN DO? The ad provides not merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer. Testimonials abound. Michael Lamb of Tucson figured out how a personal computer could monitor anesthesia during surgery; the rock group Earth, Wind and Fire uses one to explode smoke bombs onstage during concerts; the Rev. Ron Jaenisch of Sunnyvale, Calif, programmed his machine so it can recite an entire wedding ceremony...
...supposed to happen to those caught with too much. "People just don't know what is going on," said Alex Harrison, a retired American buying Kahlua liqueur (not banned) in Juárez last week. Among the horror stories is the saga of Bob Walz, 60, of Tucson, who filled spare tanks in his pickup truck with 250 gal. of diesel fuel in Mexico at 16? a gal. He was arrested at the border for "disrupting the economy of Mexico" and spent five nights in jail...
Richard S. Gillette Tucson...
Rocky Grant Tucson...
Rolland and his top managers have been buying a broad range of stocks that they expect will profit from dwindling interest rates. First they purchased utility issues, such as Arizona Public Service, Tucson Electric Power and Northern States Power. The borrowing costs of those companies will be declining, and that will help profits. Next they moved to housing-related stocks that would benefit if the lower interest rates encourage a pickup in homebuilding. Their favorites: Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific. Anticipating that consumer spending would increase, Rolland bought Sears, Roebuck and Co., MCA, Procter & Gamble and two drug companies, Syntex...