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...thing. The planes will come in about 90 minutes." By dawn the artillery exchanges had become so fierce that it was dangerous for us to stay in so exposed a position at the Hotel Alexandre. Palestinian mortars and 130-mm shells exploded near by, sending shards of steel shrapnel onto the hotel roof...
...works, of course, Weirton Steel will have made a startling transformation, from one capitalist's prosperous fief to the principal U.S. enclave of-yes-a kind of homespun socialism. But Weirtonians think more in terms of preserving a place where rich, hard-working lives have been uncommonly possible. If there really is a way for every will, willful Weirton may just have a chance to live happily ever after. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Weirton
Finally, the perfect knock-'em-dead gift for the man or woman who has everything: something to protect everything with. Not your ordinary cold steel snub nose, mind you. That would never do for kings, sultans and other mega-consumers. At Bijan's exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, where the clientele snaps up such wares as $95,000 chinchilla bedspreads and $1,500 bottles of perfume for men, self-defense means a $10,000 gold designer gun. "You don't want to be at home and have someone try to kill you," explains the Iranian-born proprietor, Bijan...
Traditionally, the industrial strength of a nation has been measured by its ability to make things big: the immense blast furnaces of its steel mills, the vast concrete expanses of its dams and the monumental skyscrapers towering over its cities. In the future, industrial might will flow increasingly from the power to make things small: the microscopic electrical circuits that form the core of computers, calculators, missile control panels, televisions, video games and all other electronic products. Called semiconductors, these circuits are most commonly etched in invisibly intricate detail on thin silicon chips as small as a baby...
...expected to become the biggest-selling semiconductor product by 1985. This chip can store 65,536 separate bits of data, or four times the capacity of the 16K RAM, which until recently was the industry standard. For U.S. chipmakers, who have watched the Japanese cripple the American auto, steel and television industries, the 64K strike was ominous. Says W.J. Sanders III, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, one of the many semiconductor firms that have sprouted in Northern California's Silicon Valley: "This highly successful, productive U.S. industry, the leading edge of this country's economic future, is hurting...