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...behind the back pass like Calvin Dixon's while looking into the stands: CALVIN DIXON, men's basketball--A partridge in a pear tree: GWEN GORMAN, co-captain of women's swimming--To have her whole thesis written: LILY PEW women's field hockey, squash and lacrosse--A Walkman tape player; JOE CARRABINO, men's basketball--A 450 SL convertible and a 14-inch vertical leap; TIM PENDERGAST, men's lacrosse--A dinner out; TANIA HUBER women's ice hockey--A new kneecap; CHRIS MITCHELL, men's basketball-Playing time; TRACY KIMMEL, women's ice hockey goalie: Unlimited studio recording...
Junior BOB MCCABE is perpetually off in another world because he is attached to his Walkman tape player, his teammates kid him, 22 hours a day; the only two hours without it are practice time. "He'd wear it in games if the coaches would let him," one teammate chuckles...
Suddenly Ms. Claus ran into the room wearing a candy-striped sweatsuit, sweatband and Walkman. "Nickie, it's time for your kelp juice," she called...
Japan's Sony Corp. has stunned the world with an array of products ranging from the first pocket-size FM radio and the first portable videotape recorder to tummy TVs and the Walkman tape player. Last week Sony Chairman Akio Morita, 60, showed off his latest marvel: the Mavica, a still camera that looks and feels like a conventional 35-mm camera but takes color pictures without film. Morita grandly called the camera the greatest innovation in photography since Louis Daguerre invented the silvered copper plate print...
...Walkman, with its imitators, is a product defining its time, the way television focused the style of the late '50s. Says Detroit Psychologist Gail Parker: "The growth of these things is another result of the 'me society.' These machines are very selfish. When someone is involved in loud music, they're sending out a signal to the rest of the world to be left alone." Pinstriped Businessman Wade Schilders, 24, listening to Dvorak in midtown Manhattan, hits his "hot line" (allowing intrusion by real-world noise) to disagree: "Some people say the gadgets are isolating...