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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...
...have stated that the Republican mock convention held at Brooklyn College nominated Barry Goldwater. As a delegate to the convention I would like to inform you that, though Senator Goldwater led in the first-ballot strength, Ambassador Lodge clinched the nomination on the second ballot...
...third-base line." Willie's teammates hardly know what to expect next. In Houston last week, Giant Pitcher Juan Marichal, whose own 6-0 record has helped keep San Francisco in the race for first place since the start of the season, walked up to Willie in mock anger: "You didn't hit any homers the last time I pitched-you owe me two." "Have a heart," chirped Mays. "This is a big ballpark." He then slammed one into the left-field seats in the third inning, put a second in the right-centerfield seats (with...
...cluster of egregious flops in the span of a couple of years," he declares in a sweeping judgment on the recent works of such eminent names as Katherine Anne Porter, Mary McCarthy, Bernard Malamud and James Baldwin. "There are various ways to declare the death of the novel: to mock it while seeming to emulate it, like Nabokov or John Barth ... or to explode it, like William Burroughs, to leave only twisted fragments of experience and the miasma of death...
...Striving friends of theirs think they are "lazy" or "only hurting themselves" and give them solicitous advice, Scoffers in turn fell superior to such more disciplined academics. They mock people who spend all their time in the library and call studying "lonely...