Word: cubed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rubik 's Cube is good for 43.2 quintillion headaches...
...measure, Büvös Kocka is the hottest number to come out of Budapest since the Gabor girls went West. Büvös Kocka means Magic Cube, but out side Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Ernö Rubik...
Thanks to modern mass marketing, the lunacy quotient may be far higher with the cube. Ideal Toy Corp., which makes the cube under an agreement with a Hungarian state manufacturing company, produced 4.5 million last year (retail price: $6 to $10) and expects to sell far more in 1981. Other companies are manufacturing and distributing versions of the cube, while pirated editions are being turned out in Taiwan and Hong Kong...
...designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color. Each side is divided into three rows, each row into three smaller cubes ("cubies"). Each row can be made to rotate 360° so that one can twiddle the cube from top to bottom or from side to side...
Enough of the preamble. You know about The Button and the beaches, or you wouldn't have read this far. It's time for the Sports Cube Guide to Florida--or, how to make the most of the best eight days of the academic year. First, some rules to remember...