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Stop the Music, a hardy musical hybrid of "Miss Hush" and the Pot o' Gold, is a variation on a well-worked theme. Master of Ceremonies Bert Parks telephones to people chosen at random across the U.S., asks the listener to identify the popular tune then being played. If he can do that he wins a nominal prize and qualifies for a chance at the Mystery Tune, a stumper that sounds tantalizingly familiar. The most recent: Get Out of the Wilderness, vintage 1850, with a marked similarity to The Old Gray Mare. If a listener identifies the Mystery Tune...
...million capital. The State Department smoothed the path to the Sheikh of Kuweit, joint owner with Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud of the Arabian desert's "neutral zone," where Independent's oil concession lies. State also passed the word that Independent was its chosen instrument for the "neutral zone" oil lands. And Arabian American Oil Co., in neighboring Saudi Arabia, was ready to let Independent use the projected 1,100-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean...
Most of the seniors said they were satisfied with their major subject, although 13% of the men and 17% of the women wished, now that it was all over, that they had chosen a different one. The kind of education they had had was split roughly 60-40 between a generalized education and specific training. Asked what they would desire if they could do it all over again, half said they would follow the same educational line, the rest leaned toward more specific training...
...spring my pupils pass their examinations." But blond, slant-eyed Vladimir Barkov has no doubts whatever concerning the year 1963. By then, believes Vladimir, triumphant Soviet science will have perfected atomic control and powered a voyage to the moon. Out of thousands of applicants, three young men will be chosen to man the first Mars-bound ship. Vladimir will be one. "Before starting," he writes, "I peruse my diaries and see how happy were my years of study and research which led to this interplanetary trip. In our collective efforts, I never felt the loneliness experienced by scientists in capitalist...
Last week Miss Stenz dared Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, to make a scientific test of her treatment. Boasted she: "I will grow hair on any person chosen by the A.M.A. and do it under observation." Dr. Fishbein wasn't having any. Said he, fingering his own bald head and repeating an ancient wheeze: "'Any ass in Athens can grow more hair than the wisest man.' These cells are dead. Anybody who can restore hair in dead cells can restore people from the grave...