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Jill Wine-Banks, 39, assistant special Watergate prosecutor. Known for both her miniskirts and her notable comment, "You took your foot off the pedal," when Rose Mary Woods tried to demonstrate how she might have accidentally erased part of Nixon tape. Divorced in 1979. Married Michael Banks, high school sweetheart. General counsel to the Army under Carter, now partner in Chicago law firm headed by Albert Jenner, who was Republican counsel to House Judiciary Committee...
...million in toasty Palm Springs, Calif, (to simulate the dry, hot climate of Las Vegas), under a gleaming white tent pitched behind the Canyon Hotel. At suppertime the parking lot was still steaming. The challenger appeared for his ring work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring...
...informational source," says Tom Madden, a former NBC vice president who launched Video Newscasting Network last year. Madden's 200 subscribers-most of them general managers of local television stations-pay an annual subscription fee of $330 (for broadcasters) or $495 (for non-broadcasters). They receive a biweekly tape running approximately 40 minutes, containing the scoop on everything from the latest electronic equipment and last week's big trade convention to tips on new shows and interviews with movers and shakers...
Because of the cost and the comparative scarcity of the playback equipment, general-interest magazines on tape are a prospect for the future. But trade magazines, aimed at a specialized audience, can be justified both as a business expense and as an efficient way to get across what may essentially be visual information. A new camera will look much better going through its paces on tape than being described and diagrammed on a page...
...anyway-but a New York City-based company called MovieMat is going to fix it so they can be vended right out of a machine. MovieMat is about to test-market a unit the size of a standard soft-drink dispenser that will hold as many as 20 taped feature films. The customer puts his charge card in the slot and watches previews of the available films. He makes a choice; the machine runs a credit check, relays rental information to a central computer and sends his rental tape down the chute, all in about two minutes. If the MovieMat...