Word: players
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cutler said Becky Tung is a prime example of a maturing player. She is making rapid improvement in her first year playing the game as her victory yesterday showed, he added. "The important thing is that we're all having fun," Cutler said...
HOWARD ECKERSLEY, about 51, a University of Utah psychology graduate who became a Hughes favorite one day in the 1950s by filling in when the master's regular movie projectionist showed up drunk. Eckersley has seven children and is an energetic tennis player despite having suffered a broken back on Okinawa in the World War II Navy. In 1972 he was charged by Canadian authorities with stock fraud in connection with a mining venture. The case was never brought to trial, but Eckersley's standing in the Hughes empire declined...
...years ago. Phelan describes him as something of an embarrassment to his five low-profile colleagues. "Sometimes he would burst into falsetto song, dance alone to music in public places or suddenly begin to imitate a horse neighing or a dog barking," writes Phelan. A onetime high school football player, Waldron has three children. A fourth drowned last summer in the Bahamas...
...tennis, the basic game, there is a dotted net, a white ball and oblong bars representing racquets on the screen. By twiddling their control knobs, players can drive, volley and angle shots without sweat or risk to tendon. Fast reflexes are demanded, however. As the game progresses, some units automatically speed up the ball; others allow the players to set the pace as well as select the length of game (from 2 to 20 minutes). The screen keeps score. Pong and other games emit an exultant plonk! or ping! when the player smites the ball (losers supply their own Nastase...
Some games have different aims. By inserting one cartridge into the sophisticated Fairchild unit, a player can become an Op artist, concocting complex traceries and Cheopsian constructions across the screen for hours on end. The unit can also make its own doodles. Fact (around $400), another system that uses cartridges to extend the range, may be a valuable teaching aid when it comes on the market next year. It flashes questions about history, science or literature onto the screen; they are answered by pressing multiple-choice buttons...