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Unusual times-demand uncommon actions: Democrat Roosevelt in the '30s, Republican Reagan in the '80s...
...inveterate golfer, and I am sure he must go to a country club to play golf." (O'Neill, who shoots in the high 90s, does indeed go to country clubs. On his one golf outing as President, Reagan, who years ago shot in the 80s, played on the more exclusive private course on the Palm Springs, Calif., estate of Multimillionaire Walter Annenberg...
...which fear that competitors will steal the results of oilfield tests that reveal promising drilling sites. Computer-security specialists predict that the demand for electronic scramblers will soon explode. Says Donn Parker of SRI International, a California research firm: "Encryption is the control of the future. During the '80s it will become very important...
...played the tune for generations of American teenagers, who fed them coins to hear Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. Those music machines, though, are going the way of the malt shops that housed so many of them. Industry experts say that by the end of the '80s the brightly lit boxes may be only a memory. The number of coin-operated players has already shrunk from more than 500,000 in 1976 to some...
...sold out in two weeks last fall at Bloomingdale's in New York. Retailers report that the priciest items sell best. Alan Bilzerian, owner of two stores in Boston and Worcester, Mass., claims: "The customer wants one incredible piece. This will become a piece from the '80s, the way a Bauhaus or Corbusier was a piece from the 1930s." On the other hand, most leatherwise observers will also agree with Dawn Mello, executive vice president of Bergdorf Goodman: "The thing a woman wants to own now is something in leather, just as she had to have jeans when...