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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...
...public office. Moses converted his many appointed posts--most important among them the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority--into control of every major construction project in the city from the late 1920's to the early 1970s. He built highways, bridges, parks, housing, and a vast array of public edifices among them Lincoln Center, the United Nations. Shea Stadium, and Co-op City...
...Penny Budoff of the State University of New York at Stony Brook: "Many physicians act as if pain is women's due and getting rid of it is almost sacrilegious." A more basic reason may be that doctors have been unable to explain the link between a bewildering array of physical and psychological problems and a normal physiological event. As a result, women have been urged to cope as best they can with bed rest and aspirin, or they have been labeled neurotics and offered tranquilizers. Says Psychiatrist-Endocrinologist Ronald Norris of Boston's Tufts University School...
...wealthy, a media room can be an Ali Baba's cave. Gerald Hill, a Wisconsin-based oil explorer, has electronic centers both at his Lake Geneva home and aboard his 86-ft. yacht, Bravo Papa. In addition to a vast array of video-stereo equipment in the home room, he has a library of 2,000 movies, including the entire John Wayne film canon and all episodes of the M*A*S*H TV series. The equipment in the seagoing media room includes a Javelin night-vision TV camera that scans the ocean or shoreline and projects what...
American officials were not alone last week in expressing doubts that Iraq could have produced materials for nuclear weapons within months of activating the 70-MW Tammuz reactor. That crucial Israeli contention did get some support, but also a lot more detailed criticism, from an impressive array of international nuclear scientists and Western government officials...