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...some really serious players," he says. "Not long ago, part of the ceiling fell in, probably because of the vibration of 60 machines going at top volume. I bet most of the players didn't even look up. They thought it was just another special effect." Exposure to Pac Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders produced one adverse reaction. Says Holmes: "In most games and sports, you learn teamwork and how to adjust to the strengths and weaknesses of others, attributes that serve you well the rest of your life. Video games do not seem to produce any transferable skills...
...rated status. The about-face represents a transparent attempt to find a rationalization for money-mongering. Presented with the choice of losing the 61 high-powered football programs which composed the fledgling College Football Association (including all big-time teams except the Big Ten and the Pac-10 conferences) or bowing to their pressure, the NCAA backed down and buckles under sight of the fact that the NCAA should be first an educational organization and second a commercial interest group...
...schools, which include most of the nation's football powers except members of the Big-10 and Pac-10 conferences, have threatened to sign a television contract with NBC. The NCAA already has a contract jointly with...
Despite the internal dissent, the movement as a whole has become a very powerful political force, particularly at the state level. According to Peter Gemma, director of the National Pro-Life PAC, some $2 million was spent in the 1980 campaign by the hundred or so local and national antiabortion political action committees. But, he notes, "our real strength is in the grass-roots volunteers we can mobilize on behalf of a candidate." Says the direct mail consultant Richard Viguerie, a leading New Right strategist: "The guy who publishes the little anti-abortion newsletter in places like Iowa is very...
Rose Bowl, January 1, at Pasadena: Will Bo Schembechler's 9 2 Michigan Wolverines finally break the bowl jinx against Pac-5 winner Washington...