Word: pong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King Pong. Nolan Bushnell, 34, saw a future in video computer games. In 1976 his four-year-old company, Atari Inc., the maker of Pong and other electronic entertainments, was sold to Warner Communications Inc. for $28 million; Bushnell remains chairman of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company with a six-figure salary...
Business firms have latched onto the new fitness with unmistakable sincerity. It is a backward business organization, in fact, that does not subsidize some kind of aerobics program at least for its executives. Fumble-fingered. soft ball, bowling and Ping Pong used to be the extent of business athletics, but now such firms as General Foods, Xerox and Life Insurance Company of Georgia have set up elaborate exercise regimes. The reasons are not obscure: employees who take 20 laps instead of four martinis at lunch make more sense when they return to their desks, and are far less likely...
Greeting the boy, Stevie Cauthen, you find yourself shaking the hands of a powerful man. We met in the jockey's room at Aqueduct, where Cauthen was warming up for a day's work by playing Ping Pong. He is brown-haired, fresh-faced and tiny, except for his hands. He has not grown since...
...right. People come around. You came around when I was winning at Ping Pong. But it's all right...
...future may not be the brightest for Harvard's disciples of ping pong, but they will get more cooperation from the residents at 60 Boylston St. than some of God's other missionaries got from the cannibals...