Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party throwers, organizers of company picnics, and families who want to try a fast sample of the action. Used, reconditioned machines fetch up to $1,200 each, depending on the game and vintage. As proof that the pins are now iquitous and farious. Sears, Roebuck is marketing a home model called Fireball for $645. Montgomery Ward will also sell an electronic game, for $650, by Christmas...
Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner has batteries of pins in both his Los Angeles and Chicago mansions and is negotiating with Bally, the GM of pin, to produce a Playmate machine with Bunnies on the back glass. (Ironically, D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally's chief rival, produced a model called Playboy back in 1932, when Hef was six years old.) The English, among the world's most passionate pin pushers, trace pinball's origins to the bagatelle board mentioned in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle. The sheiks of Araby are clamoring...
...patterned atomic structure of crystalline substances like silicon. Sir Nevill Mott, 72, former head of the famed Cavendish Laboratory at England's Cambridge University, provided the theoretical underpinnings of modern solid-state physics in the 1920s. His later work with amorphous materials led to development of the "Mott model," a theoretical framework for understanding the properties of semiconductors made from amorphous materials such as sulfur, selenium and tellurium, all of which are far more economical to produce than crystalline components...
...Model UN & ECOSOO...
...Model UN participant...