Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pong game is forever. Although players can position their paddles so that the blip should move between them permanently on a fixed path, the pong machine automatically breaks up steady-state rallies that extend beyond a given time period. Some machines turn themselves off in such a situation, while others are programmed to divert the blip from its path. Even pong has its limits...
...evolution of Third World societies. Some of his contemporaries also tried to locate the mainsprings of expansion within the imperial countries, but it was Lenin who showed how imperialism stunted and distorted the economic and political development of Third World countries, stalling or diverting them from the normal path of development...
...topographic battalion in North Africa during World War II before going to work as a technical illustrator. Hortens drew the maps that appeared in TIME during the first two weeks of Middle East fighting and applied his skills this week to the Science section chart that shows the path of the Kohoutek comet...
...Jerusalem and Israel. The city and the nation are gripped by a cold fury, reported TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: "It is an icy resolve that has stilled the passing joke. Like the coming of the khamsin, the cruel desert wind that afflicts the spirit of all those in its path, the Arab attack has plunged Israel into a state of shock. The myth of Israeli invincibility and Arab ineptitude has been demolished at one stroke...
...Harvard Cooperative Society asked Cambridge in February 1965 to close Palmer St. and turn it into a pedestrian mall. Landscape architects drew a plan calling for two small plazas, an underground parking garage for 200-300 cars, and a path through the First Congregational Church's graveyard as a shortcut to the Square...