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...selling it to the Battelle Memorial Institute, a research foundation in Columbus. In 1947, Battelle in turn sold the technology to the company that eventually became Xerox. Now Battelle has warned that Carlson's invention, which has become not only an office fixture but something of a technological wonder, will by the end of the decade be capable of duplicating the delicate shadings of U.S. currency. In a study for the Federal Reserve, Battelle predicts that as many as 20% of those with access to the super copiers will use the new machines' extraordinary color capability to roll off near...
...Payton has endured these eleven seasons, physically and spiritually, still so near to the top of his game, is more than a wonder. He logged a record nine straight 100-yd. running games this season and led the team in receptions. After Chicago thrashed the Los Angeles Rams, 24-0, to take the National Conference championship, one Bear after another stopped by Payton's locker just to touch him. "Eleven years of climbing that mountain," he sighed, speaking not altogether figuratively. As the boy once ran the hot sandbanks by the Pearl River close to his home in Columbia, Miss...
...that the understudy has the starring role, political observers wonder whether Carlsson will maintain the high international profile that Palme fashioned for Sweden or will preoccupy himself with domestic issues. He takes office at a time when many Swedes are beginning to view Sweden's cradle-to-grave social-service system as a drain on their prosperity. There is some question whether Carlsson can provide the leadership to continue to fend off challenges from the nonsocialist opposition...
...squabbling, neither Barbara Johnson nor the children are likely to be called to the stand. Some observers wonder what the children have to gain in their challenge, since dozens of the preceding wills also slighted them. They claim their fight will benefit their father's philanthropic interests, which were dramatically undercut only in the last will. But the speculation is that they really expect a settlement offer to forestall years of legal delays. Meanwhile, Judge Lambert has asked for the jury's patience as they examine this complex test of wills, in which "we are all working hard." Shoveling dirt...
Stumpf wants the best parts of childhood made available again, the mixture of surprise and ritual, comfort and wonder. Images of his own youth in a polyglot St. Louis neighborhood pop up again and again in his conversations about design. "I used to crawl behind the radio," says Stumpf, son and grandson of engineers, "and stare at the tubes." Almost every machine, he says, is at some level a toy. "The concept of jauntiness is a quality lost completely in design. It is a wonderful quality. The horse and buggy had it." By jaunty he does not mean arch...