Word: betting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...radio-rating, moved into TV in 1952, attracted as many as 16 million listeners over 144 stations. With pontific gesture but light-hearted approach, he used blackboard drawings to discuss philosophy, referred to the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Television," earned high ratings even opposite Lucy and You Bet Your Life...
...best bet is believed to be a "magnetic bottle": an arrangement of magnetic fields that will grab the electrically charged deuterium nuclei and force them to stay close together while an electric current heats them very hot. In practice, a magnetic bottle is some sort of glass tube, often doughnut-shaped, filled with rarefied deuterium. When electric current is shot through it in the proper way, a hot, thread-thin spark flickers briefly in the center. This is deuterium pinched together by magnetic force. It is many times hot enough to melt the glass of the tube, but it never...
...trouble where it belonged: in the courtroom instead of the street. But his personal conference with Orval Faubus in Newport (TIME, Sept. 23) heightened his growing suspicion that he might have to move, however reluctantly, into the Little Rock situation. "If I do," he told an associate, "you can bet one thing. It will be quick, hard and decisive." Preparing against the day, Attorney General Herbert Brownell drafted a proclamation ordering compliance with the court's decision and opening the way for the eventual use of U.S. troops in Little Rock...
...Vegas premiere of his new movie The Joker Is Wild, last week went along with him to a closed-circuit telecast of the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio fight in a Hollywood theater from which they emerged looking as happy as if they had bet on Winner Basilio. But though Hollywood gossips buzzed, both Lauren and Frankie denied a wedding is in the wind...
Scramble. The problems are compounded because only one of the many experimental pay systems is likely to survive, and stations that bet on a loser will suffer. New systems are coming out all the time. Solomon Sagall, a founder of Britain's TV-pioneering Scophony, Ltd., last week filed to patent a system that will send a clear picture but add sound only when a subscriber flicks a switch. Says Sagall: "The picture teases...