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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The hearing of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight had not lasted long before a picture emerged from memory and began to dominate the scene. It was a picture of a tall, handsome young man in the isolation booth, his face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

"Explode with Answers." Twenty One's Producer Dan Enright, 42, testified that on many shows the fix "has been in force for many years." Herbert Stempel, the man who was defeated by Van Doren, admitted that he took a dive. And the woman who finally dethroned Van Doren, blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

In such an atmosphere, fixing was epidemic. On CBS, testified a network spokesman, Dotto went crooked. So did For Love or Money (whose "dancing decimal machine" was rigged to chisel down the contestants' possible winnings). After a contestant reported he had been fed an answer, CBS even began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) services were an hour late getting started in Madrid, but nobody seemed to mind. One of the 200 Jews who crowded the third-floor hall off Madrid's Gran Via explained: "We've waited 467 years for this day. A few more minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First in 467 Years | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

They collected $40,000, spent most of it on furnishings-gleaming, oak-paneled walls, handcrafted ark and candelabra. The government agreed informally that the synagogue would be permitted to operate openly as long as police were kept informed of its activities. At last week's dedication, a police inspector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First in 467 Years | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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