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...more than 11 million copies in its Genus, Sports, Silver Screen and new Baby Boomer editions, bringing in $400 million for Selchow & Righter, which is now manufacturing a million games a week to meet the demand. This fall stores will be inundated with Trivial Pursuit calendars, cartoon books and pencil caddies. ABC-TV is planning to air a Trivial Pursuit special. And in January the Queen Elizabeth II sets sail on an eight-day Trivial Pursuit cruise, with Abbott and the Haneys aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pac-Man for Smart People | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Erma Bombeck lives in us all. My law-student daughter says I gave her three housekeeping tips: keep pins in the pincushion, have a pencil by the phone and arrange fresh flowers when you do not have time to dust. Those chores will not kill her, and following that advice should fit in with her law career. Long live Erma's revenge: laughter. Martha Weston Plano, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1984 | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

HIGH ENERGY physics is a lot like hockey the better you get, the more expensive the equipment becomes. As research has exploded with starting new discoveries, physicists' primary tools, once pencil, paper and a few gadgets, have become tremendously complicated and expensive tools like high-energy accelerators Made possible by the new, high technology and machinery, physics research has surged into areas never before dreamed of Perhaps most importantly, infinitesimally small quarks--the building blocks of more familiar sub-atomic particles like protons and nuetrons--have been found...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Get Physical | 7/13/1984 | See Source »

Notice: Car-pool moms entered in the U-Haul Mother-of-the-Year brake-off should complete the following literary quiz. Answers must be written in eyebrow pencil, and nuttiness counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...trials and also broke down during the Helsinki World Championships a year ago. Her resolve is stony: "I want to do all the commercials. I want fame and fortune." But her 5-ft. 5-in., 115-lb. body is made of china. "If you sharpen a pencil point so finely," says Leslie Kaminoff, Ashford's physical therapist, "it can break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Dress Rehearsal for Lewis et al. | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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