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...third baseman sent to the same Mets to bring Nolan Ryan to California...
...Gaylord Perry's many accomplishments include being the only pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues. Who is the only modern pitcher besides Perry to win 100 games in each league? And who is the only man, apart from Nolan Ryan, to throw a no-hitter in each league? Five points each...
...baseball ($1.15 million). After an off-year once, Carlton volunteered to renegotiate a contract downward and was accommodated, so this was a square deal. He needs 75 strikeouts to break Walter Johnson's record of 3,508, but then Gaylord Perry requires just 57 and Houston's Nolan Ryan merely...
...robot's name is BOB (Brains On Board). At present it cannot even fetch a beer from the refrigerator, but its buoyant creator, High-Tech Millionaire Nolan Bushnell, 40, forsees an almost boundless future for the $2,500 machine. Concerned about crime in your neighborhood? Not to worry, "Home security," says Bushnell, "is just moments away." With the proper software, he claims, BOB could patrol a house and call the police when its heat sensor sniffs an intruder. When BOB isn't watching the house, he could be cleaning it. "As soon...
...from Reed in 1974, Jobs journeyed back toward home and, answering a help-wanted ad in a local newspaper, landed a job at a video-game outfit called Atari, then in its second year of business. Jobs became the 40th employee of the small and idiosyncratic company founded by Nolan Bushnell and fueled by the success of Pong, the first of a long line of video recreations that turned simple games into eye-glazing national obsessions. Atari was a pretty loose place?staff brainstorming sessions were fueled with generous quantities of grass?but even there Jobs did not quite...