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None of Woroner's programs, of course, are going to solve any arguments at the neighborhood saloon or barbershop. Indeed, each week as boxers are eliminated in Woroner's alltime tournament, he is besieged with irate letters from fans accusing the computer of taking a dive. If the trend toward computerized sports continues, the day may come when barber-chair sportsmen will be arguing: "Oh yeah? Digit for digit, the NCR 315 can fold, staple and mutilate...
...America's rooftops, before Y. A. Tittle or Bart Starr or Jimmy Brown could create their instant mythology for the eyes of millions, a man often communed with his family or made a pilgrimage to nature to find solace for his workaday existence. Sometimes he went to a saloon or a ballpark. But now, each autumn Sunday, he turns to the TV set, and enjoys the drunken exhilaration of victories by Chargers, or Giants, or Packers. It is there, says First-Novelist Frederick Exley, 38, that contemporary man can find fantasy heroes to act out his own ineluctable dreams...
...completely convincing as Cowboy Will Penny-illiterate, aging, and anything but bright. He doesn't even have a heart of gold; Gary Cooper would never have left a wounded pal to bleed his life away in a wagon outside while he loaded up on rotgut in a saloon. That's what Will Penny does, sitting there, scruffy and stupid, upending the bottle and croaking, "Sure burns a dollar's worth." It looks as if this is going to be an interesting experiment in antiheroics amid the great open spaces...
...gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed deals for Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel ($30.7 million) and Silver Slipper Saloon ($5,400,000) and their gambling casinos, giving him six hotels and 15% of all the action in Nevada...
...sodbuster who carries no gun and wears a badge emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape the town half-breed (Barbara Luna). This results in one of them being killed by the town half-wit (J. Robert Porter...