Word: making
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game called Hunt the Wumpus, in which the Ph.D. devouring Wumpus is hunted through the perils of a 20-room cave. Computer language is flat and unresonant, and Hunt the Wumpus lacks a certain dash. But a toymaker may say, "Give me a way to display a Wumpus! Make him buzz and light up!" and next Christmas everyone may be going into debt to buy an expensive, electronic Wumpus Wars. By then, civilization as we have already started to forget it will have disappeared beneath a pile of spent alkaline cells...
...version of the computer chess player turned out by Fidelity Electronics nearly three years ago. Back then it seemed remarkable that a tiny computer could play chess at all, even though its play was less than brilliant. Now the chess ability of the reprogrammed chip is high enough to make any parlor wood-pusher loosen his collar and roll up his sleeves, and it is the machine's distinctly machine-like speech that is the dazzling gimmick. Turn the doodad on, and it says, dropping each word like a cinder block, "I- am- Fidelity's - Chess - Challenger - your...
...Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan. Carrion of the University of Miami School of Medicine, has a somewhat inconvenient result: a permanent erection. But a jock strap or tight shorts make it undetectable under street clothes. Some doctors now insert bendable rods that can be turned downward...
...Travel inside the dome would be by electric cars or monorail-to avoid lethal accumulations of automobile exhaust. Still, Tigan admits the project's "human dimensions" must be explored. One member of the city council, which last month approved a request for $55,000 in federal money to make the feasibility study, wondered how residents would feel about no longer being able to do cross-country skiing from their front doors...
...Broadway musical is a kinetic compound of electrically charged energy, precision team work, spectacular razzle-dazzle, and the visceral urge to make that golden killing. Drama Critic Martin Gottfried astutely captures all of that and more in Broadway Musicals (Abrams; 353 pages; $45). After nearly 20 years on the aisle, he provides a knowledgeable guided tour through every avenue and aspect of hits from Oklahoma! to A Chorus Line. In this era of scrimp and save, the 395 black-and-white and color photographs are some thing of a rarity...