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...month-old arcade game swallowed up an estimated $1 billion in quarters to become the hottest item in the video-game market, but the little yellow creature is now invading homes and spawning nearly 200 offshoots ranging from jeans to a chart-busting pop song, Pac-Man Fever...
Columbia Records' Pac-Man Fever (sample lyric: "I've got Pac-Man fever/ I'm goin' out of my mind") was No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 last week. Book publishers are weighing in with works like Signet's 128-page paperback guide, Mastering Pac-Man, which has put in an appearance on the New York Times bestseller list, and Pocket Books' How to Win at Pac-Man. Meanwhile, Bally last week introduced the first model of a Pac-Man pinball machine. The company hopes it will revive interest in pinballs, which...
...Fever, Cook...
...never won one and got nothing." Other lawyers, though puzzled by the verdict, had considered the case one of the weakest among those pending. After using Rely in May 1980, Deletha Lampshire, now 18, of Littleton, Colo., said she experienced typical TSS symptoms, including low blood pressure, high fever and peeling skin. She spent six days in the hospital. Since then, Lampshire told jurors, she has suffered memory loss and depression. "I felt dirty, and I still do," she said. "No man would want to marry me." An economist testified that her difficulties, which included poorer college grades, would seriously...
...Fever, Cook...