Word: desktop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurled pointed stones dug up from the sidewalks, burned an army truck and at one point barricaded Avenida Rio Branco. Mounted police charged with drawn sabers; police also pelted students with tear-gas grenades, finally opened fire with rifles. From overhead windows, meanwhile, office workers showered police with such desktop flak as ashtrays and paperweights. Clashes between police and students spread to several other Brazilian cities. The toll: two dead, 83 injured...
...erect at his ornate Louis XV desk in Elysee Palace, President Charles de Gaulle reaches out occasionally to snap on a loudspeaker dubbed le perroquet (the parrot) that permits him to listen to debate in the National Assembly. Lately the parrot has gone wild with a cacophony of shouting, desktop banging and name-calling that led in one embarrassing instance to a sword duel between two incensed Deputies. The sounds from the box have made painfully clear to De Gaulle that the mere plurality that Gaullists drew in the March parliamentary elections has transformed the comfortably rubber-stamping Assembly into...
...profitable but competitive business, whose sales of $600 million are rising 20% annually. Into the field last week came another major manufacturer: Los Angeles' huge Litton Industries (fiscal 1965 sales: $916 million). As the first of what will ultimately become a whole family of copiers, Litton introduced the desktop Roy fax 7, which spins out seven dry copies a minute, reproduces documents as varied as 51-in. invoices and 362-ft. seismographic tapes. Introducing a tantalizing gimmick, Litton plans to install the machines for nothing, make its money by selling zinc oxide-coated paper for them...
...almost everyone in the industry. The copying machines will turn out 10 billion or more copies in 300,000 U.S. offices this year; by 1970, they will be producing 25 billion copies, and the industry's sales will top $1 billion. SCM President Emerson Mead predicts that desktop copiers will eventually become so compact and inexpensive that many a secretary will have one right next to her typewriter. His confidence in the future market for such time-savers is one reason that SCM has dropped out of the carbon-paper business...
...average $5.000 a year (rates: $95 monthly and 3.5? for every copy over 2,000). American Photocopy, SCM Corp., and Charles Bruning Co. now sell rival electrostatic copiers, but they require special papers. Xerox (which dropped the Haloid from its name in 1961) will come out with a smaller, desktop 813 dry copier next fall (probable rent: $40 a month), is developing a machine to apply xerography to facsimile transmission of documents by radio waves. Though Wilson expects the demand for the 914 to begin to slacken after mid-1963. he counts on the company's 550 patents...