Word: sinclair
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...Like Sinclair Lewis, who employed the author as a secretary and driver during the summer of '37, Hersey had points to score. The Wall (1950) dramatized the life and death of the Warsaw ghetto. The War Lover (1959) examined the roots of violence through a self-hating American bomber pilot. The Child Buyer (1960) criticized trends in education, and The White Lotus (1965) took on racism in an allegory that made Caucasians the objects of discrimination...
Western companies were invited to show off their personal computers and other educational equipment at a trade fair held for nine days last January in the center of Moscow. Among the 50 firms that mounted displays were Britain's Quest Automation and Sinclair Ltd.; no U.S. makers were represented. The fair was a hit with Muscovites, who paid 50 kopecks (about 75 cents) for tickets and crowded into a pavilion that was blinking brightly with video screens. Computers were also on prominent display at a Moscow robotics trade fair in February...
...have plunked down hundreds, even thousands of dollars apiece for computers that turned out to be high-tech white elephants. Owners of low-cost home computers have been particularly hard hit. Among them, they have 2 million Texas Instruments 99/ 4As, 1 million Commodore VIC 20s, 700,000 Timex Sinclair 1000s, 200,000 Coleco Adams, 135,000 Franklin Aces and now at least 250,000 IBM PCjrs--all of them orphans...
...orphan computers end up in the closet because people don't know what to do with them," says Susan Mahoney, who directs a Timex Sinclair User Group out of her home in Waterbury, Conn. Her 600-member organization, one of 100 such U.S. chapters devoted to Timex alone, helps bring those computers back out of the closet. The Timex groups exchange newsletters, sponsor joint meetings and cooperate in finding spare parts...
This year is the 100th anniversary of Lewis' birth. A postage stamp will be issued from Sauk Centre this month, and in June there will be a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. The summer will see the annual Sinclair Lewis Days road race, beauty pageant and parade. The Sinclair Lewis Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary 3847 are selling popcorn at birthday events, and the Centennial Committee is offering souvenir T shirts, mugs and tractor hats. As Richard Lingeman writes in Small Town America: Lewis certainly would have "appreciated the transubstantiation of his indictment of Main Street into positive thinking...