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Driving dilemmas
By RICK PENDERGRASS Kansan Sports Special
This week all you Mario Andrettis of the Midwest get to test your driving skills on probably the most un-of-a-kind quiz ever published.
Because there isn't enough room on this page, it will be necessary to print the answers right here in front of you, so you must be honest with yourself.
This is a multiple choice test, just pick a letter;
1. You live in Mission Hills (snob). It's 1:40 p.m. and you have a 2 o'clock final. You (a) risk the cops on K-10; (b) take the turnpike at 110+ mph; (c) call for a police escort.
2. You're driving at night and the car coming toward you won't dim his lights. You (a) close your eyes; (b) zip out your one-million candlepower spot and burn his eyes out; (c) utter some profanity and bear it out.
3. You are on your way to a "white tie" formal. You pick up your date in a Sprite. You (a) close your eyes; (b) rent a crane and lower her in; (c) let her sit on the hood.
4. You and four of your buddies have been drinking all night. The guy who is driving is smashed. You (a) take bets that he won't make it home (you stay); (b) knock him out and drive yourself; (c) close your eyes.
6. You just bought a new Maseratti Ghibli and find out the dealer installed the anti-smog device. You (a) cry; (b) play Thoreau and take it out; (c) trade it in for a Renault.
5. You crest a hill at 90 per and there's a pickup limping along ahead. You (a) hit the pickup; (b) play 'Bullitt' and dodge the Mack truck coming toward you; (c) you guessed it, close your eyes.
7. You're streaking down the highway at 90 per when you see the little red eye behind you. You (a) try to outrun it; (b) stop and pay the ticket; (c) BS your way out by telling them you just discovered your girl is pregnant and you are emotionally upset.
8. Your father bought you a new GTO. You (a) add three deuces and slices, and head for the nearest dragstrip; (b) simply drive around and try to impress people; (c) trade it in for a real car—like a Porsche.
9. Your rear tires break loose on a mountain curve. You (a) give it the gas and try to power out; (b) hit your brakes and spin to a stop; (c) close your eyes.
10. You drive a (a) family car; (b) status car; (c) economy car; (d) truck or old car; (e) 'hot' car; (f) sports car.
11. If you had your druthers, you would own a (a) Mustang,
Camaro or Firebird; (b) GTO; (c) Roadrunner; (d) VW; (e) Triumph
GT6+; (f) MGBGT; (g) Jeep; (h) 1948 Kaiser.
12. If you lived in Italy and had enough money, you would buy a (a) Maseratti Ghibli; (b) Ferrari; (c) Perciatelli Mk. II; (d) Lamborghini Miura.
Each letter of each question is worth a number of points. Total your points from the answers below and find your rating.
Answers: (1) a-3, b-1, c-5; (2) a-1, b-3, c-5; (3) a-3, b-5, c-1; (4) a-3, b-5, c-1; (5) a-3, b-5, c-1; (6) a-3, b-5, c-subtract 3; (7) a-subtract 5, b-1, c-10-point bonus; (8) a-3, b-1, c-5; (9) a-5, b-subtract 3, c-1; (10) a-1, b-0, c-3, d-4, e-3, f-5; (11) a-0, b-subtract 1, c-subtract 1, d-3, e-5, f-4, g-4, h-10 point bonus; (12) a-4, b-2, c-you're disqualified, that's a type of spaghetti, dum-dum, d-5.
If your score was 50 to 70, you're qualified to write car columns in the UDK. If you made between 30 and 50, you'll do, but don't enter LeMans. If you made between 10 and 30, chances are you're the guy everyone is supposed to watch out for. 0-10, buy a Mo-Ped. Below 0, you are eligible for the Mickey Mouse Fan Club.
UCLA still has four games—160 minutes of basketball—to go if it is going to become the first team ever to win three straight. Cincinnati once was just 10 seconds away—and couldn't do it.
UCLA's bid to become the first team to break the three-time jinx is the highlight of this year's NCAA tourney, which reaches the regional semi-final stage tomorrow night when 16 teams play at four different sites.
That 'third time' jinx may hold for Bruins
Bearcats came close
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — If you think UCLA is close to an unprecedented third straight NCAA basketball title, you've probably forgotten how close Cincinnati once was to that goal.
Cincy denied
It also brings back memories of the 1963 tournament when Cincinnati, under Coach Ed Jucker, came so close but still failed to win a third straight.
The Bearcats had been upset winners in both 1961 and 1962, beating the Lucas-Havlicek Ohio State team both times. Led by Tom Thacker, Tony Yates and Ron Bonham, the Bearcats were a well-disciplined team that played tough defense and set up for the good shots.
After winning in '61 and '62,
the Bearcats were heavily
favored to win a third straight crown. It seemed like they were going to do it when they rolled into the finals against Loyola of Chicago and built up a 15-point lead in the second half.
Loyola rallied but Cincinnati still had the title in its grasp when the climactic moment of
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the game came with 10 seconds left. Larry Shingleton had a free throw with the Bearcats leading by two. If he made it, Cincinnati would have a three-point lead and the game would be sewed up.
But Shingleton missed, Loyola rebounded, and Jerry Harkness swished a jumper from the side of the court at the buzzer in regulation time to send the game into overtime. Vic Rouse tapped in a rebound at the buzzer of overtime to win it for Lovola.
UCLA wins 4 of 5
No club has come close since to three straight—even though
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UCLA has won every year but once since. Gail Goodrich led the Bruins to titles in 1964, with the help of Walt Hazzard, and in 1965. The Bruins didn't even qualify for the NCAA tourney in 1966 when Lew Alcindor was a freshman, but then breezed to the 1967 and 1968 titles.
Until the last two weeks, it seemed a mere formality for UCLA to make it three straight.
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