Among all the ceaseless points of competition between the male and female of the species, at least one area of male superiority has long been supposed unchallenged: women are lousy drivers, men are great. Last week that illusion, too, was shattered. In one of the most competitive of U.S. driving tests, the 2,061-mile, five-day Mobilgas Economy Run from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, women won the most coveted honors.
Permitted to participate in the Mobil-gas contest only since 1957, womankind furnished 20 of the 56 drivers in the 1960 run. Among them were a grandmother, seven housewives, a bobbysoxer, a women's-club president, a...
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