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...Edna Vega Alexandria...
...smaller survey last fall included on its "least constructive" list ABC shows Taxi and Vega$ and CBS hits WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard. NBC, lowest in commercial competition, had five of the "top ten constructive" shows, including Quincy and Little House on the Prairie...
...report titled Crooks, Conmen and Clowns. It reveals that two of three businessmen are shown as foolish, greedy or criminal, and that almost half of all work activities performed by businessmen involve illegal acts. For example, in Barnaby Jones, a coffee importer helps a violent revolutionary group. In Vega$, a wealthy hotel owner who owes $50 million plans and oversees several murders. Owners or managers of big businesses are almost always filthy rich, with gigantic houses, servants and limousines. There is some honor among small businessmen, but most come off as H.L. Mencken characterized farmers and politicians: candidates for society...
DIED. John Knudsen Northrop, 85, aviation pioneer and founder of Northrop Corp., who designed such celebrated planes as the original Lockheed Vega (in which Amelia Earhart made her historic solo transatlantic flight in 1932), the night-flying P-61 Black Widow fighter in World War II and the revolutionary boomerang-shaped Flying Wing; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. Northrop, who was also a co-founder of Lockheed Corp. in 1927 before starting his own firm in 1939, blamed manufacturing disputes with the Air Force, not problems of flight stability, for the fact that he never realized his dream of mass...
...research, warns that "we're a long way from a robot that can assemble a carburetor." Nor are robots a panacea for all the ills that industry is heir to. The most automated factory of its time was the Lordstown plant that GM designed to produce the unsuccessful Vega, evidence that productivity is not worth much if the product is hard to sell. As the robotmakers look ahead, though, they see a promised land. It is a land in which the factory computers guide the original design of a product and then translate all instructions for the robots that...