Word: answers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with China. In 1950, on hearing that the Chinese Communists had invaded Tibet, the Dalai Lama's advisers placed two balls of kneaded tsamba in a golden bowl of water, one to indicate that the Dalai Lama should leave Lhasa, the other that he should not. When the answer turned out to be yes, they set out cups of buttered tea for good luck, made their way over the mountain passes in freezing (24° below zero) weather to a monastery only ten miles from the Indian border. When they returned to Lhasa seven months later, the Dalai Lama...
...Helmet, Red Sweater. Thirty-two hours had passed, and Moss was reported to be "weakening fast." At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, in answer to a broadcast appeal for an "expert potholer, less than 5 ft. tall, weighing under 112 Ibs., exceptionally athletic and with unlimited courage," June Bailey, 18, appeared, a slip of a girl wearing a red helmet and red sweater. She was instructed to break both of Moss's collarbones to help narrow the width of his shoulders and perhaps free him. But before she could enter the shaft, the trapped man had died...
...game-adapted from a 1953-55 radio show-pairs two colleges, each with four-student teams. Quizmaster Allen Ludden, 41, a sometime writer on teenage manners and morals (Plain Talk for Men Under 21, Plain Talk for Women Under 21), fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives...
What College Bowl suffers from is a sophomoric strain on the basketball analogy. A referee's shrill whistle signals half time and the commercial. A student audience is encouraged to cheer each correct answer. After Northwestern was defeated by Georgetown a few weeks back, Northwestern students hanged in effigy the quiz team's coach, Dean of Students James Currie McLeod. Mused McLeod: "Who knows-I may wind up like Terry Brennan...
...were prepared to answer him, but the audience nevertheless applauded like a bullfight crowd. Occasion: performance in Paris' Théâtre des Champs Elysées of Orpheus, a ballet set to music by avant-garde Composer Pierre Henry, 31. The performers were members of France's sensational new dance troupe, Maurice Béjart's Ballet Theater of Paris, which specializes in choreography set to concrete music...