Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful element of fantasy in Space Invaders is the focus at which the computer technicians, the toy manufacturers and the games theorists seem likeliest to meet. Computer boffins at Manhattan's Rockefeller University play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, in which the Ph.D. devouring Wumpus is hunted through the perils of a 20-room cave. Computer language is flat and unresonant, and Hunt the Wumpus lacks a certain dash. But a toymaker may say, "Give me a way to display a Wumpus! Make him buzz and light up!" and next Christmas everyone may be going into debt...
Presumably the computer children will retain some links with society. In any case, if the silicon-chip industry can gear up its production to meet the insatiable demands of the toymakers, the computer-synthesized siren songs heard by flesh-and-blood members of the population are sure to become even more beguiling...
Harvard's consecutive dual meet victory streak reached 25 Saturday when the Crimson continued its romp through the Eastern League schedule with a 64-49 victory over Army in the West Pointers' home pool...
...lost a close race [in the 200 free] earlier in the meet and didn't want that to happen again so I broke out and tried to get away right after the 100," the Ramsey, N.J., native said yesterday...
...newly discovered" butterflyer's early season time and the even-split style in which he accomplished it are all the more impressive considering that coach Joe Bernal put his charges through rigorous workouts both Friday evening and Saturday morning before the meet...