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...Midway through the third stanza McKenney ned the game, converting a rebound off of O'Connor fourth save in 30 seconds...
...rare examples of a play that was not a success in New York but has been a hit in Los Angeles is Tom Topor's courtroom drama Nuts, which has proved a financial salvation for Susan Dietz and her L.A. Stage Company, a pioneering theater midway in size between the tiny outposts and the big commercial houses...
...because the military hierarchy malfunctioned and the civilians in command lacked the will power to force matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just as it won all the others. Yorktown, Midway, Normandy, Da Nang--they're all the same. But this argument, implicit in the documentary and explicit in the statements of Ronald Reagan and others, reflects a dangerous tendency both then...
...prototypes, and hire as consultants professors of almost anything?engineering, psychology computer science, possibly even medieval French literature. At Bally, three teams of about 25 engineers, artists, computer programmers and game developers work on translating ideas into intricate microchip circuitry. One project started three years ago in Bally's Midway division as a black-and-white game called Catch 40. A little man ran back and forth trying to catch falling objects on his head. As the game progressed, the objects fell faster and faster. Early tests showed that the game grew too difficult too quickly?the objects fell...
...went dry for ideas," says John Pasierb, Midway's chief electrical engineer. They needed to give the little man, who had evolved into a clown on a unicycle, another weapon to help him deal with the falling balloons. Hank Ross one of Midway's founders, got the idea of letting the clown retrieve missed balls by kicking them back into the air. It was decided that on the easy first "rack," or skill level (some games have as many as 20 racks), the clown would get rid of balloons by popping them with a spike...