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...increase their visibility, software companies have begun using a time-tested sales technique: celebrity endorsements. Electronic Arts has put out a computer basketball game featuring a match-up between Larry Bird and Julius Erving. Micro Education Corp. of America in Westport, Conn., is beginning to introduce programs that carry the names of well-known writers: Andrew Tobias' Managing Your Money ($199.95) and James F. Fixx's The Running Program ($79.95). Both Tobias and Fixx say they helped develop the software, though neither is a programmer...
Autocratic yet affable, Bernhard lives in the Georgian colonial home in suburban Westport, Conn., that he bought for $55,000 in 1944. He uses a second-floor room as an office, often working a ten-hour day. His stock in Value Line was worth $145 million when the company went public last year...
...Myra is suitably awkward when Anderson arrives and she ridiculously fears that her husband may actually do him in for the chance at another hit and a trip to the Riviera. And Bruhl's lawyer Porte Migrim (Paolo Carozza) comes by occasionally to act pseudo-everything like the prototypical Westport, Conn. lawyers...
...members of the Meurer family are primarily angry. They blame the Government for the killing of Lance Corporal Ronald Meurer, 21. They think his death was a stupid waste. One evening last week they gathered in his parents' house trailer near Westport (pop. 200), a Louisville exurb on the Kentucky bank of the Ohio River, to rage and cry together...
With IBM on a roll, some computer dealers worry about its growing market dominance. Companies like Apple and Compaq may be helped in the future by the eagerness of computer-store owners to have something to sell besides IBM products. Says Seymour Merrin, a Westport, Conn., dealer: "We cannot allow our futures to be totally controlled by an outside force like IBM. If you do, you become a slave, not a business." But if IBM continues to move forward at its present pace, dealers may have little choice. IBM controls 70% of the mainframe computer market, and the company...