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...Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Tissue Tussle | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...hurdle of the old English, which requires adjustment and greater concentration on the part of an audience than does the more familiar Shakespearean dialogue--combines innovative technical aspects with a rotating cast. His set consists of four 15-foot-high white screens, a white floor with a red grid and black cubes of varying sizes placed with stools around the stage. Kaplan calls his set "new wave," and, while avoiding a more traditional setting, it aids in conveying a sense of the story by its quality that avoids space, time, and formal definition. In this sense...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Unworldly Knowledge | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...many says can you divide the square grid below into four parts of exactly the same shape and size by drawing lines from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribute to a Process, Not an End | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

...Multiflex goes national on Christmas Day, as Crimson grid coach Joe Restic directs the offensive campaigns of the Union forces in the annual Blue-Grey all-star game, which will be telecast over national television. Crimson stalwart Brian Buckley will reportedly start at quarterback, and Mike Durgin and Chuck Durst will see action as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

...information that can be analyzed quickly." While most of the touch systems are developing a robot claw's ability to measure objects, some are more elaborate. The Lord Corp. of Erie, Pa., hopes to market within five years a "hand" made out of spongy material with a grid of many sensitive wires embedded in it to achieve a true sense of touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

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