Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant who sees the cosmos as an intricate baseball game records the hits, runs and many errors in his tragicomic efforts to be God's scorekeeper...
...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
Ideological Equations. Practically every one of those names was mentioned in what became the second biggest guessing game at the convention. The big question, of course, was: Could Nixon be stopped? The next biggest: If not, who would be his running mate...
...Numbers Game. Among KRLA's other adventurous approaches to the news is a sardonic feature called "Today's Totals." Sample rundown: "Three dead in traffic. One death by gunfire. Dow-Jones industrials down 4.93. The Dodgers now 23 ½ games out of first place. The Angels 16 games. Those refusing Army induction: six. Marijuana arrests: 20. High today: 82." KRLA's 14-man news staff is youthful (average age: 29) and happily, rarely takes itself very seriously. Once an announcer closed with "This has been KRLA news. For all the news, listen to KNX, KFWB or read...
Nobody really expected the College All-Stars to beat the mighty Green Bay Packers in last week's game at Chicago's Soldier Field. Certainly not the All-Stars themselves, who had only three weeks of practice before taking on pro football's perennial world champions. Morale in the All-Star camp was so low-most of the rookies would rather have been off training with their own pro clubs-that Coach Norm Van Brocklin delivered a sermon. "I told them it was an honor to be picked among the top 50 college players of last season...