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Wondrous as they are, the new games are not without their flaws. Code Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic...
...Paper Chase...
...apartments are registered in his name. In 1973, after placing him under round-the-clock surveillance for eight months, local authorities managed to arrest him only on a weapons charge-but the charges were dismissed. On one occasion, Barnes playfully led his police tails on a wild-goose chase through Harlem, making 100 stops at grocery stores, bars and neighborhood social clubs...
...Cloud Nine. "This is my first three-dimensional role," bubbles Farrah Fawcett-Majors. In the forthcoming movie Somebody Killed Her Husband, Farrah plays Jenny Moore, an unhappily married young mother who falls in love with an unsuccessful writer of children's books (Jeff Bridges). Between embraces, the pair chase around Manhattan trying to find out who knocked off Jenny's husband-and why. "I really understand the character of Jenny, and every day I think I learn something new about her," reflects Farrah, who, it seems, has suddenly had a revelation. Says...
Broadcast historians can record that Eric Sevareid spent much of the final day of his career as a TV commentator shopping for a pair of fleece-lined slippers. "I plan to sit around this winter and read a lot," he explained from his Chevy Chase, Md., home. Sevareid has earned a rest. For the past 13 years he has tried to make sense of the days' events-in 2½ minutes, four nights a week. Having reached 65, the network's mandatory sign-off time, he is not entirely unhappy to slow down. "The deadline was remorseless...