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After six baleful, bitter years, a full 16 seasons after Willie Mays & Co. brought them their first West Coast pennant in 1962, the Giants for most of 1978 have been leading the league in a ding-dong race. Giant fans, regarded as an endangered species likely to be spotted only on beaches, at discos and in therapy groups, are flocking to Candlestick Park, breaking all attendance records (1.3 million, nearly doubled since last year). Now they dance in the stadium after victory, howl for Dodger blood and scream their affection for a new-found love, Pitcher Vida Blue. "Bloo! Bloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants and Dodgers Tangle Again | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Smart little computers provide mental aerobics Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!" The sound of a fire bell, imitated flawlessly and gleefully by a high-pitched human voice, informs the neighborhood that Moppet has conquered Machine. They are well matched: Lizie is small, going on eleven, with brightly lit hazel eyes. The vanquished mechanism is a small desktop computer called Comp IV, new this year at under $40, with flashing red lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

Getting it on, of course, means love and sex, passions that old time rock 'n' roll had plenty to say about. But today's punk rockers have no time for euphemisms like Chuck Berry's "ding-a-ling." Four-letter words are not spared. And when Thundertrain bawls, "I'm hot, ho, hot, hot for teacher," there is no missing the point. The 1970s have been dominated by graduates of the 1960s rock era -Paul Simon and Paul McCartney moving out on their own, groups like the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anthems of the Blank Generation | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...Ding Dong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tying Up Loose Ends | 3/12/1977 | See Source »

...Johnny Most had been there he would have called the contest a "hectic ding-donger"--Harvard dinged and Brown donged for the entire first half, which saw the Crimson on top 29-27 at intermission...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Cagers Startle Crowd, Brown; 68-64 Win Ends Losing Streak | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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