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Pong's importance in history has not diminished since that day. For instance, the inventor of the pen, an avid pong player who employed the pen-holder grip, named his new invention after this grip when he realized a pen is held just like a ping pong paddle. More recently ping pong diplomacy has opened the door to improved relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China...
Stanislaw Lem's stories are somewhat like the enormous gag that Edwin Land, the wealthy inventor of the camera that bears his name, pulled on Harvard when he tied his contribution for the Science Center to the stipulation that the structure look like his photographic brainchild. Lem is an absurd humorist whose jokes are too big to be funny. He writes of a world gone mad. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub and The Futurological Congress are tales set in future societies that no longer know where they have come from or where they are going. Indeed, they no longer know...
...childhood. Her memories, except for those of school, seem to be solid and good. The family was prosperous. She had a pony and later a horse. Her mother is a strong, intelligent woman with a gift for science (Linda's maternal grandfather was Lloyd Copeman, a successful inventor who devised an electric stove and an early form of microwave oven...
However, noted philosopher, designer, inventor, father of the geodesic dome, and author of Spaceship Earth and other books, Buckminster Fuller, will lecture on Friday, Feb. 11 which, believe it or not, is Bucky Fuller Day in Boston, at 7:30, at B.U.'s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston. Mayors Kevin White and A1 Velucci will present the Milton, Mass. native with a grand proclamation on the occasion of his 50th anniversary. 50th anniversary of what, you ask? Back in 1927 at age 18, Fuller declared his intellectual independence from the rest of organized society and proclaimed himself...
...Microvision, a new pocket-size TV set from England, which will go on sale in the U.S. next month. Developed by Britain's Sinclair Radionics, the 26½ oz., minitube measures 6 in. by 4 in. by 1½ in., which calls for an ample pocket. Says Inventor Clive Sinclair, who also pioneered in developing the pocket calculator: "It's not a toy, but a perfect set for the businessman." The battery-powered sets are designed to operate in both the U.S. and Europe. Thus a traveling executive can catch the evening news on his way to Kennedy...