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...Tell Mardikh strata reveal that Ebla reached its zenith in the middle of the 3rd millennium, around 2300 B.C. It reigned over a vast network of trade routes, lending business expertise to cities hundreds of miles away. A century later it had apparently fallen, its coffers plundered and its walls razed by rivals to the south...
...costly home entertainment equipment is among the hottest merchandise around. Scores of specialty shops with names like Video Concepts and Videomart have sprung up to supply sophisticated gadgetry to home-media junkies. Annual stereo and video sales across the country are running at about $2 billion. Says Walter Fisher, Zenith Radio Corp. marketing executive vice president: "The revolution in entertainment electronics has hit not only the high-technology stores but the American lifestyle as well...
There are those who would have us believe that L.A. is the happy zenith of our Westward Ho, but the truth of the matter remains that the city stands as positive proof that William Bradford was right when he suspected we were bound for horror from the moment we hit Plymouth. Some fundamental hideousness has always festered in the American mind, and as it rolled west it seemed to snowball, until, three thousand miles later, it had become an entire metropolis filled with ragged vegetation and arthropodal people. L.A. siphons off the nation's psychoceramics the same way it siphons...
...time when women swimmers did not lift weights and collegiate nationals carried little prestige. Boglioli, encouraged by her husband, lost 40 lbs. and returned to competition with a sensational record-setting performance at the 1976 AIAW championship. Her star reached its zenith when she captured the bronze medal in the 100-meter fly at the Montreal Olympics and swam on the gold-metal-winning 400-meter Free Relay at age 21--the oldest member of the women's swim team...
...nearly $300 less than laser systems. RCA will immediately offer 100 programs that range from the movie Rocky to demonstrations on baby care narrated by Dr. Benjamin Spock. Finally, SelectaVision will be sold in 5,000 stores under the RCA label, and a compatible system is being marketed by Zenith, Sears, Radio Shack and Hitachi under their own brand names...