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George McGovern showed early foot. Hubert Humphrey rallied and faded. Ed Muskie made a late surge. A hotly contested primary? No, a hotly contested mock political convention at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., the boomingest of the quadrennial campus mass ventures into political prediction. Washington and Lee's convention also has the best record for accuracy. Since visiting Speaker William Jennings Bryan inspired their first mock convention in 1908, the student delegates have correctly predicted the presidential nominee for the out-of-power party a remarkable ten of 14 times. It has been 60 years, in fact...
Biggest and boomingest of them was held in the Washington and Lee University gymnasium in Lexington, Va., last week. The 1,256 just-pretend Republican delegates were in dead earnest. Months ago they had polled real-life G.O.P. state leaders, learned how they might vote at the real Republican convention in July. Now the kids were committed to vote as nearly like the actual delegation as possible-so much so that many mock delegations got a stream of telephoned instructions from real politicians throughout the convention. Beside that, tough-minded and thoroughly grown-up G.O.P. professionals backing Rockefeller, Goldwater...
...wrote Mark Twain about Lake Tahoe, a 22-mile-long scenic jewel 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, and so the lake remained until about a decade ago. But it lies athwart the north-south line between two of the nation's most superlative states: the boomingest-California-and the gamblingest-Nevada. And this has been all but the ruination of Mark Twain's "noble sheet of blue water...
...them all together, and they spell the biggest, boomingest Mother's Day spree (May 14) since Oedipus wrecked Thebes. On the business side, the nation's retailers, urged loudly on by the National Committee on the Observance of Mother's Day, last week were promoting a variety of stunts to pull in the trade: sketching contests of Mom, 25-words-or-less compositions on "I like my Mom because . . ."; prizes for the oldest grandmother, the youngest, the most fecund. On the straight promotion side, organizations were choosing Mothers of the Year from the 50 states, from which...
...odds will wind up in jail, divorce court or the psychiatrist's clutches. "Every third or fourth person you meet," said Coulter, "is having psychiatric treatment. Each big apartment building has at least one resident psychiatrist, and some have four or five. It is the boomingest profession in town...