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This game of war, affectionately known to the computer at Star Drek, is waged between a computer wonk and the unfriendly Klingon and Romulan spaceships, which appear on the terminal screen. The thrill of firing phasers, speeding through space at warp 5, annihilating the enemy with torpedos released by pressing the asterisk on the terminal keyboard and the challenge of perfecting a technique that allows one to destroy enough alien ships before the computer blasts your own ship to pieces have brought Star Trek top popularity among the 18 game programs available in the computer room. "You should...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: TERMINAL ILLNESS | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Here is a radically subjective art, yet through this back door of self-improvement Chassler breaks through to objectivity. She has a gift for turning her insides out--for being so inside herself that she's not herself at all. The thrill of her dance is its transparency...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lines Almost Spoken | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

...point in her solo she bounds around the room holding her closely-cupped hands tight to her side. She has a secret hidden there. Chassler dances close to her private self without consciously externalizing her self. She tells us little, speaking so softly that we thrill to hear...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lines Almost Spoken | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

...these gripes only become real frustrations as foreign students get used to the initial thrill they feel at being here. "I was so enthusiastic about everything, it was all so new and exciting," Granaglia says. Hardouvelis says one of the first things he did was to go to a baseball game...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Grain of Salt | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

After skating with the team for only two practices, Bolduc almost immediately noticed "a quicker, more physical game" than he playyed in college or the Olympics. He describes his Olympic experience as "fantastic. My puck handling and stick control really improved. It was also a great thrill playing against the Russians. It's something I'll long remember...

Author: By William Scheft, | Title: WHA Whalers to Give Bolduc Tryout | 3/2/1976 | See Source »

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