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...Detroit Pistons crushed the Boston Celtics 160-117 last night, setting a team scoring record. Kevin Porter led the Piston scoring binge with 30 points and chalked up 25 assists. Detroit and Boston now hold equal 25-40 records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CELTICS | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

...Genitocracy that this precisely was the destiny of mankind from the moment it entered on the path of technology; that even the ancient rowers, chained to the galleys, and the woodsmen of the North with their saws, and the steam engine of Stephenson with its cylinder and piston, all traced the rhythm, the shape, and the meaning of the movements of which the sex of man - that is to say, the sense of man- consists. The impersonal industry of the U.S.A., having appropriated the situational wisdoms of East and West, took the fetters of the Middle Ages and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...Cosman, and colleagues at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital have now constructed a remarkable sensor that warns of pressure increases by means of radio telemetry. As the investigators explain in the Journal of Neurosurgery, they drill a small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction of an inch, thus transmitting a signal to the telemetry receiver at the patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 27, 1978 | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...British-born Costello may look a bit like Woody Allen with a guitar, but there is nothing timid about his music. With a three-piece band behind him, he blasts out a stream of riffs that recalls the piston rhythms of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Little Richard and the early Beatles. The songs are angrier than the soft rock that spun out of Southern California onto the record charts this year, and Costello sings them with a prophet's urgency. In the light of his sizzling reception on a just completed U.S. tour, the message seems clear: rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: England's Elvis: Gut Emotions | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

Detroit led 26-23 at the end of one before Boston got temporarily aggressive and, thanks mainly to the shooting of Boswell and the passing of ex-Piston Dave Bing, turned the tables for its halftime advantage...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Pistons Overhaul Winless Celts, 100-85 | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

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