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...like jelly beans as they draw a day's supply of ammunition. "Did you count 'em? I give you 18, didn't I?" says one. "Now, you know I can't count," comes the reply. One of them tells me they are going to shoot skeet. "Yeah, down at the skeet march," adds another. Every skeet one finds this hilarious...
...April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...
...Solomon envious. Operated with military efficiency by about 100 Navy men and Marines, it can provide almost anything a President might want: a free-form heated swimming pool, a sauna, two clay tennis courts, a one-hole, three-tee golf course, a two-lane bowling alley, a trout stream, skeet-shooting and archery range, movie facilities, a wide selection of music (Richard Nixon used to stand in front of the stereo speakers and "guest conduct" his favorite symphonies fortissimo). Comments former Nixon Counsel John Dean: "It has a rustic feel but no rustic hardship. If Baked Alaska is what...
...that may make parents wish the children were watching Captain Kangaroo. The Fairchild Video Entertainment System ($ 150 for the basic unit, $20 for cartridges containing additional games) enables homefront Pattons and Rommels to blast the bejabers out of whippet tanks in the desert; or lets the player be a skeet shooter; or pits blackjack skills against an electronic dealer who tots up bucks lost or won, keeps track of the bets and will advance credit if somebody goes broke...
...began to shy away, hastening the downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff had converted Post's dream into an open resort, and was making an all-out bid for middleclass tourists. But they too stayed away, preferring the Las Vegas glitter of Acapulco to the solitude, the skeet shooting and the English grass 20 miles distant...