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...Minnesota Vikings, but Wichard's passing average of 228 yds. a game this season is impressive in any league. Ending the regular season with an 8-2 record, Wichard & Co. next week take on the Delaware Blue Hens, the top running team among small colleges, in the Boardwalk Bowl in Atlantic City...
Games are often a society's ritual fantasies. Parker Brothers' Monopoly, for example, was introduced in 1935 as a Depression daydream of striking it rich with hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place. The coming election year has prompted several pick-the-President exercises (TIME, Nov. 8). It is difficult to predict what sociologists, or the Italian-American Civil Rights League, may make of a game called The Godfather -"for All the Families...
...Owns Boardwalk? While the impact of the Pentagon papers continues to reverberate in the U.S., a Marxist explanation comes from the Soviet magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the Russian view, the secret study was published because three factions of monopolists were warring among themselves...
...equally strong interest in the less sacred aspects of American commerce takes Trillin to the Fifth Annual Paul Bunyan Snowmobile Derby in Brainerd, Minn., the auction stalls on Atlantic City's boardwalk, and a national U.S. Jaycee gathering in Phoenix, where the campaign for the presidency is only a little less elaborate than the Democratic and Republican conventions. (The successful candidate gets to spend a year living at the Jaycee's White House in Tulsa, and his wife is often referred to as the First Lady...
...will be there. If the judge rules rent control unconstitutional the game will be all over. If not the city government, the tenants, and the landlords can continue to play Monopoly with the rent control issue. In any event the Property Owners are going to keep Park Place and Boardwalk. Rent control may eventually succeed in getting some temporary relief for tenants but at best it will be a stop-gap measure. In Monopoly you win with hotels, not houses...