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...Mattel was zapped by the collapse of the video-game craze, and its stock fell sharply. Pennsylvania-based Nutri/System, which operates a chain of weight-loss centers, fell from grace when earnings slumped after it acquired an executive job placement service and a cosmetics firm. Anacomp, an Indianapolis data processor, had problems with some software products, and its stock tumbled. The drop in the share price of California...
...Down East Disney keeps his word processor clicking at a phenomenal rate. He has just finished collaborating with fellow Horror Novelist Peter Straub (Ghost Story) on a fantasy novel called The Talisman. After that comes a new collection of short stories, and a lengthy monster opus called IT is in the works. Says Straub: "Steve is a workaholic who wouldn't be happy if he wasn't writing...
...general, friends and colleagues describe Martin as an energetic and able administrator who is intensely interested in the nuts and bolts of his job, even down to the tiniest details of how the office word processor works...
Just as the computer is changing the way work is done in home offices, so it is revolutionizing the office. Routine tasks like managing payrolls and checking inventories have long since been turned over to computers, but now the typewriter is giving way to the word processor, and every office thus becomes part of a network. In one survey of corporations, 55% said they were planning to acquire the latest equipment. This technology involves not just word processors but computerized electronic message systems that could eventually make paper obsolete, and wall-size, two-way TV teleconference screens that will obviate...
...Kantor is a Prospero with a word processor hooked to a memory bank stuffed with 10,000 popular novels. Her books are put together with pieces of these old fictions. But there can be glitches: "Rosemary's word processor is on the blink and she is not getting the sort of scenes that Rogue Duke needs. But Redbook is pressing her. So Rosemary tries to dredge up some Georgette Heyer channel-packet stuff. Instead Rosemary gets a Bulwer-Lytton trireme, by mistake...