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...pinball was once a game without peer. For a teen-ager with a pocketful of dimes, there was no better way to while away idle hours than maneuvering a steel ball through a maze of obstacles, while lights blinked and a noisy digital Scoreboard recorded points with a distinctive bong. But pinball, alas, lost some of its cachet in high-speed modern life-until 18 months ago when there appeared a new breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race car. Besides giving birth to a nationwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Space-Age Pinball | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

This instrument of wakefulness, designed by Scientist Karel Montor, was first tested on midshipmen volunteers at the U.S. Naval Academy. When their minds strayed from their assignment to thoughts about a girl friend or their next leave-bong! they were found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Antidream Machine | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...several battalions of U.S. troops in search and destroy operation in the Coastal plain near Bong...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Ginsberg in the '70s | 5/11/1973 | See Source »

...show trials and the brutalities, reports TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, "appears to have been to wreck whatever allegiance the government might have built up, and there are few more effective ways of mitigating allegiance than to bury four dozen loyal men alive" -as happened in the town of Bong Son. Some examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Campaign of Brutality | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Despite heavy air support, after three weeks the South Vietnamese troops had still not dislodged some 500 or 600 Communists inside the thick-walled 19th century citadel in the center of Quang Tri city. On the coast, ARVN troops were equally cautious -with reason. Their first objective was Bong Son, capital of one of three districts in Binh Dinh province to fall to the Communists. ARVN'S slow pace has been frustrating to President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had wanted Quang Tri city retaken before the Paris talks resumed on July 13. It is no more certain that Thieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Slow Counterattack | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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