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...Called Odyssey, the game is actually a battery-powered, closed-circuit broadcaster that projects movable squares of light on a TV screen. The light squares-which can be maneuvered in any direction by dials on two small "player control units"-represent players, targets and balls in a wide variety of games...
...Odyssey games are designed for all ages. Several, like "Cat and Mouse," are variations on the game of tag. If the cat intercepts the mouse's flight through an overlaid maze of squares, the mouse disappears from the screen. Other games are designed to be educational. In "States," for example, a map of the U.S. is attached to the screen and children are asked the name of the state illuminated by the square of light. In an electronic version of roulette, bets are placed on a separate board and a light square moves around a simulated wheel before coming...
President Nixon seldom makes house calls. But last week he boarded Air Force One at his Key Biscayne retreat to fly 1,500 miles for a Texas hoe-down at the ranch of his treasured Treasury Secretary, John Connally. For the President even to consider such an odyssey is firm reinforcement of Connally's towering stature in Washington. Indeed, it was Connally who carried the President's wreath of carnations and cornflowers to the Abraham Lincoln catafalque on which J. Edgar Hoover lay in state last week. That and the splashy Texas party left no doubt...
Thus occurred, Witcover says, "the great Agnew transformation." He goes on to give a play by play of the Vice President's Pier 6 career, first as a clown and then as an increasingly feared gut fighter who made "an odyssey of divisiveness and personal vilification...
...malaria. He was credited with reducing the death toll in the islands by 100,000 a year. As an emissary of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled to disease-ridden corners of the world, campaigning for modern sanitation and good diet. His 1936 memoirs. An American Doctor's Odyssey, became an international bestseller that vied with Gone With the Wind in popularity...