Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Record Setter Mock" [April 24], you state that even Lloyd's of London refused to underwrite the trip. This is not the case. Through Lloyd's correspondents Leo B. Menner & Co., Inc., in Chicago, Lloyd's issued a $100,000 accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy covering Mrs. Mock during her record-breaking trip around the world...
People who think U.S. college kids are apathetic might change their minds after watching that widespread quadrennial campus phenomenon-the mock political convention...
...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 and Scranton were in town pushing their candidates. They brought money for convention expenses: $800 from Rocky's camp, $400 from Goldwater...
...keynote speaker was no mock orator either. Former Minnesota Congressman Walter Judd, who performed the same function at the 1960 Republican Convention in Chicago, told the collegians: "We must get a Republican elected who understands the world situation and not one who will crawl to get a concession. You've got five months to save the U.S. and save the world. Work hard...
Short on excitement, Trumpet shows a streak of rather whimsical originality in a sequence that has Chief War Eagle speaking Apache lingo while English subtitles flash on the screen. A less significant breakthrough is James Gregory's mock heroic performance as a gruff old Indian fighter who charges into battle spouting quotations from Latin. Since completion of the film, Troy and Suzanne have become Mr. and Mrs. in private life, gamely rallying from disaster for a Hollywood finish of their very own: omnia vincit amor...