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...electricity came along to revolutionize the game. In 1935 pinball was introduced to the anti-tilt device and the solenoid-powered bumper units, essentials to the modern game. 1937 was a banner year as well, as the now defunct Western Electric and Supply company added the allure of free games. The final major invention to hit the pinball scene came as recently as 1947, when the late Harry Mas introduced the solenoid-activated power flipper...
...hour, 13-minute tilt, a porous Oakland defense committed five errors, as 49,151 looked on in Alameda Country Coliseum...
...riel lost in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. The U.S. shipment of armored personnel carriers during the conflict provoked charges that Washington was favoring Pakistan. The Administration denied it-until Columnist Jack Anderson leaked the now famous memo quoting Henry Kissinger as saying, "The President wants to tilt in favor of Pakistan." The U.S. currently supplies Bhutto with "nonlethal" equipment such as trucks, uniforms and spare parts, and will consider requests for ammunition only on a case-by-case basis. Actually, Nixon's firm stand against supplying weapons probably did not surprise Bhutto. Before leaving Islamabad, he had warned...
...Upstate New York championship. In Durham, Dartmouth takes on UNH for the championship of New Hampshire. And of course, here in Cambridge, Harvard meets UMass for what some may construe as the Massachusetts title. In the only non-regional contest, Columbia meets Bucknell in a New York-Pennsylvania tilt...
TIME has learned that an IRS Special Services Group, set up in 1969 at the White House's request, has collected files on 3,000 organizations and 8,000 individuals-not all of them radical, though the tilt is definitely leftward. While many of the persons and groups listed have tax violations on their records, others have nothing substantial lodged against them. A top-level IRS memo indicates that "a great deal of material has not been evaluated...