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Albert L. Nickerson '33, chairman of the Socony Mobil Oil Co., heads the 15-man Visiting Committee...
...thundermug, and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show. Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane. Socony Mobil tests your reflexes in a simulated driving-hazard test. Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts the best rest rooms of all, with a diaper-changing room for harried mothers...
...same six companies led the sales list as in the previous two years. After G.M. and Jersey Standard came Ford with $8.7 billion, General Electric $4.9 billion, Socony Mobil $4.4 billion, U.S. Steel $3.6 billion. Chrysler, the only newcomer to the top ten, sped from twelfth place to seventh as sales increased from $2.4 billion to $3.5 billion. The laggard among the leaders was Swift, off from tenth to twelfth on a slight sales decline...
...MOBIL'S game sends 36 people at once on a mock-up cross-country race to see who is the best driver. The participant soon finds himself swooping around curves, skidding past a train, then whammo! smack into the truck ahead. The scores? Twenty-three is tops, but one fellow, who can't even drive a hard bargain, rated 19.8 just by sitting there too mixed-up to move...
...MOBIL'S ingenious game puts 36 people at once in the driver's seat, sends them on a mock cross-country race to see who is the best driver. With a steering wheel, an accelerator and a brake to operate, the participant looks through his "windshield"-a 21-in. TV screen-onto a highway, soon finds himself swooping around curves, skidding past a train, then crash! smack into the truck ahead. The scores? Twenty-three is tops, but one fellow, who can't even drive a hard bargain, rated 19.8 just by sitting there too mixed...