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...Pre-war pinball machines were pretty dull. The balls simply rolled back to the player; accumulating free games was a matter of luck. But the new machines incorporate a pair of mechanical devices which have taken pinball out of the shoot-and-pray classification and given the player a show for his money. One of these is the "live" bumper, essentially an electromagnet surrounding a spring; when touched by a ball it promptly squats down and sends the ball hurtling around the board. The other is the flipper, a little plastic arm controlled by buttons on the flanks...
...victory for the manufacturers and the distributors has been the near-elimination of slugs from the intake of the machines. Pre-war games used to glean an inordinate number of foreign coins, carefully shaped discs of tinfoil, and Louisiana sales-tax tokens. But the application of electronic research to the coin slot has made it so selective that it is now apt to balk at a well-worn Buffalo nickel unless it is carefuly coaxed into position. Other complicated circuits have eliminated a former unfortunate tendency for the machines to run away and start distributing free games indiscriminately...
Such decentralization, Perkins said, would not only ease the jam in city residential areas but would succeed in making the current building program more than just a restoration of pre-war conditions in housing...
Undergraduates received $371,875.65 in scholarship aid during 1947-48, the report states. The largest amount furnished in any pre-war year...
College observers yesterday linked the University Hall move to the recent case of two members of the HTW who were suspended for appearing in an under-graduate production while on probation. Faculty protest against their suspension is said to have hastened the renewal of the pre-war probation-warning policy...