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...every known measuring stick, the $64,000 Question is the nation's No. 1 TV show. Every Tuesday night some 13 million Americans forgo reading, bypass the movies and other forms of entertainment to watch a carefully picked group of eccentric specialists give everyone a vicarious feeling of cupidity. Last week promoters of the show tried to lure a bigger audience than ever with newspaper ads to ballyhoo a mysterious "world-famous guest." As the guest walked front and center, the announcer intoned: "Our next guest on the golden threshold of the $64,000 Question is from Suffolk, England...
...Bypass. But Rolls's most promising engine is its improved Conway bypass jet,* which it claims turns up 13,000 Ibs. of thrust from a power plant that is both lighter and more economical than its U.S. competitors in the big jet field, such as Pratt & Whitney...
...granted that the only thing to do was to cut the diseased section of ileum out of the body and attach the cut end of the ileum to the colon. But this was a relatively long and bloody procedure. It gave no better results than two types of bypass operations, which came into fashion next (see diagram). In one, the type performed on Ike, a healthy loop of ileum is drawn up and spliced into the colon, but the diseased section is left in place. This is "bypass without exclusion." In the other, the diseased ileum...
Sheep Without Shepherds. Such an eminent Christian as Swiss Theologian Emil Brunner, now teaching at Japan's International Christian University, has stated that if he were Japanese he would probably bypass denominational Christianity to join Mukyokai...
Thousands of high school graduates bypass college to marry early and achieve quick independence, not discovering for a decade that a college degree would have improved their lot. More and better guidance counselling could prevent this disillusionment to some degree. More obvious and perhaps more effective would be industrial publicity. If General Motors spent its millions making high school students aware of the difference between salaries paid the college and the high school graduate, they could induce more students to put themselves through college than their hundred scholarships will ever lure. The pollsters have, however, confused the effort to sell...