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Charles Manly III practices law in Grinnell, Iowa (pop. 8,700), a town without a law library, so he pays $425 a month to connect his CPT word processor to Westlaw, a legal data base in St. Paul. Just now he needs precedents in an auto insurance case. He dials the Westlaw telephone number, identifies himself by code, then types: "Courts (Iowa) underinsurance." The computer promptly tells him there is only one such Iowa case, and it is 14 years old. Manly asks for a check on other Midwestern states, and it gives him a long list of precedents...
...tradition of Jane Fonda and Miss Piggy, it will be an exercise-beauty-tip plan for which she has already received a $275,000 advance from New American Library. Welch, who has been warming up for her task by practicing on a new $10,000 word processor, says that unlike other get-fit-quick books, hers will emphasize that "the mind and the body are connected." She hasn't actually started writing "the book" yet, but between appearances on Broadway in Woman of the Year, the actress has taken that first step in celebrity authorhood: talking into a tape...
...want goods which would more directly enhance their scholarly work. Robert Brustein, Professor of English reiterates his annual wish for "a $5 million endowment for the American Repertory Theater." Failing that, however, the Loeb Drama Center director said he would settle for "a Pac-Man addition to my word processor...
This week's excerpt is the first of two that TIME will present from the book that, the author notes in his preface, "is my own work, typed by me at home on my trusty word processor. " To produce it, he condensed some 5,000 pages of recollections he had dictated daily while serving in the Oval Office. In Part 1, Carter not only reviews the tumultuous days at Camp David but also comments, in an exclusive four-hour interview with TIME, on current Middle East relations and on the policies, foreign and domestic, of his successor, whom he does...
...confrontation at Iowa Beef, the largest U.S. beef processor, comes at a time of generally quiet labor-management relations in the U.S. The last thing most workers want is a long strike in a deep recession. Many unions are giving back past contract gains or accepting meager wage hikes. Nearly 2 million union members, primarily in the auto and trucking industries, have forgone raises in contracts negotiated in the first half of the year. The Labor Department released figures last week on major collective-bargaining agreements showing that from January to June, average salary increases, including cost of living adjustments...