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...where are those electromechanical marvels of yesteryear? Contact and Bumper, Dragonette, Humpty Dumpty and Nudgy? Possibly they have been salvaged and soldered to play again another year. But if their relay points, solenoids and 500 yds. of wiring have finally expired, there is hope for them yet. Those lurid back glasses, with their impossibly bosomed sirens or flaming heroes and devils, were the precursors of Pop art. Today, in Europe as well as in the U.S., some golden oldies are fetching prices as high as the machines they once graced. Tomorrow, they may be sanctified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pinball Redux: The Hottest Games | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...INDIVIDUAL PASSING Player Comp./Att. Yds Larry Brown 41-74 522 Brian Buckley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

...INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING Player Catches Yds. Jim Curry 19 230 Chris Doherty 12 100 Larry Hobdy 9 160 Paul Sablock 8 105 Ralph Polillio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

...found their efforts ineffective. Hawaiians tried more traditional means. Flying over the crater, they sacrificed three bottles of gin to the angry goddess. Last week Kilauea gave a final mighty burp and dozed off. The lava flow topped and began to cool into black rock -only some 400 yds. from Kalapana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Angry Goddess On a Rampage | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...There were raucous right-wing demonstrations against the treaty and left-wing protests against the Latin American leaders, but they were kept under control. Bomb threats emptied the Washington Monument and several downtown buildings, however, and two bombs went off, one at the Soviet Aeroflot offices and another 100 yds from the White House. Anti-Castro Cubans claimed responsibility, though Fidel was not in town (Cuba was excluded from the Organization of American States in 1962, and he was not invited). No one was hurt in the explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Now for the Hard Part | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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