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Died. Edward P. Parker, 61, chairman of the board of Parker Brothers, manufacturers of popular American tabletop games since 1883; of cancer; in Salem, Mass. Parker's company has established a record for originality in an industry full of imitators; in 1902 it introduced Americans to table tennis under the trade name Ping Pong; other Parker Brothers classics include Clue and the allegedly oracular Ouija Board...
...since Frank opened the Harvard House of Pizza and almost 2 1/2 years since he came to the U.S. "I miss my town," Frank says. "It is 17 years since I live there." Frank is nervous when he talks, and his small hairy arms constantly gesture across the plastic tabletop to help express what his limited English finds so elusive. "I live past 12 years in other town in Greece." Frank finished high school in Thessalonika, Greece's second largest city, and then spent two years in college, where he studied to be a helicopter mechanic. "And after, 34 months...
...Barbara Chase-Riboud, are also capable of work that crosses the thin borderline between mere decoration and art. Some pieces, such as Phyllis Mark's kinetic pendants, which suspend shimmering abstract forms within silver ovals, are even sold with stands so that they can be displayed as glittering tabletop art. Other works, like the slablike silver and Lucite pendant by Denver Sculptor Barbara Locketz, need no prop...
...pocket-sized electronic calculator that almost instantaneously flashes answers in bright numbers. A tabletop clock that at the press of a button displays with lighted numerals the hour, minute and second in any of the world's 24 time zones. A transistorized depth-finder that tells the Sunday sailor in glowing red numbers exactly how many feet, or fathoms, of water lie under his keel. These futuristic devices, already on the market, are only samples of the dazzling consumer spin-offs from a totally new scientific field called "optoelectronics"-the marriage of modern optics with space-age electronics...
...problems in treating the majority of patients. Small doses of drugs called monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors aided the elderly by slowing the breakdown of adrenaline. Drugs that prevent serotonin buildup helped those adversely affected by the ionized air. So did the lonotron, a machine the size of a tabletop radio. Developed by Hebrew University scientists, the device supplies negative electricity to an indoor area, bringing relief to overcharged victims...