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...home-audience involvement. Two new shows planned for next season, Banko and WinAmerica Sweepstakes, will offer big cash prizes to viewers who play along at home with game cards to be distributed nationwide. The innovation could catch on, though the game-show community is wary. "You don't buy audiences with huge amounts of giveaway money," contends Mark Goodson, producer of such classics as To Tell the Truth and + Password. Chuck Barris, who has made a fortune as creator of such shows as The Dating Game and The Gong Show, is not so sure. "Two-way involvement...
...best roller-coaster ride you had when you were a ten-year- old." So says Steven Trotter, 22, of his 176-ft. plunge over Niagara Falls last week. Lying inside two pickle barrels ringed with giant inflated inner tubes and layers of fiber glass, the part-time bartender from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt...
...ahead into telecommunications. Last year it bought Rolm, the third-largest maker of telephone switching equipment, for $1.2 billion. IBM and Merrill Lynch have created International MarketNet, a service that supplies information to the financial community. And IBM has joined Sears and CBS in a venture called Trintex, a two-way videotex service for home computers...
Commenting on how he thanks Harvard Square itself has become a major metropolitan area since he was at the College, former Elsot House resident Ralph D. Goldenberg '60 remembers when Mass. Ave, was a two-way street. "But it's still," he says...
With more and more young witnesses now being called in abuse and molestation trials, that argument made sense to California Governor George Deukmejian. Two weekends ago he signed the first legislation in the U.S. allowing simultaneous, two-way closed-circuit television for some children under eleven in molestation cases. The system is designed to separate the accused from the accuser, while allowing each to see and hear the other on TV screens during testimony. Defense attorneys are expected to challenge the new law, citing the Sixth Amendment right of defendants to confront their accusers, whatever their age. The question will...