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...course. According to the Yankelovich poll, 26% of the population continues to drink as it always has. Marshall Lyons, 31, a Berkeley, Calif., tree surgeon, even gives nostalgic martini (stir, don't shake) parties, complete with Peggy Lee music, because, he says, "martinis have the aesthetic of cold steel. They're like contemporary graphics." Dudley's, a workingman's tavern in Atlanta, has not slacked off selling ten kegs of beer a week as it has for years. "We're a neighborhood place," says Manager Tas Cofer. "We get workers from GM, construction men, manual laborers. They know everybody...
Personal computer sales rose 11% in 1984, to 7.5 million. That rate would be high for an industry like steel or rubber, but it was much less than the 107% gain in 1983 and far below expectations. Moreover, the growth came primarily from computers for office use. The once sizzling home computer market now seems to be fizzling. Sales of machines targeted for the home actually declined by 4% last year, to 4.8 million. The industry originally expected to sell 7 million home computers in 1984. Says Charles Martin, editor of Personal Computing magazine: "The business has now returned...
...FAMILY ALBUM, Steel...
...long balloons are linked to ground stations by steel cables. Hanging from their bellies are 1,000-lb. platforms with $3.5 million in sophisticated radar equipment similar to that carried by AWACS planes. Though the balloons have been known to come unleashed (one wanderer had to be shot down in 1981), airborne radar is still more efficient than the ground version. It can pick up traffic in what Customs agents call "Smugglers' Alley," a wide band of Caribbean sky that is virtually invisible to land-based radar dishes because the curvature of the earth prevents them from detecting objects close...
...FAMILY ALBUM, Steel...