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...plays on rival networks-CBS, which launched the show earlier this year, by day, and a new NBC slot at night. A "champion" and a "challenger" must solve a picture puzzle consisting initially of a spattering of dots. To connect the dots and get the picture's outlines clearer, contestants must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto and Double Double Dotto. Home players...
Come, you Americans are too modest. You must have half a dozen trained chimps in your country who can give you clearer impressions of a restaurant out of a box of paints...
...Larrazábal's junta took over Venezuela, Larrazábal has gone perplexingly out of his way to be kind to Communists. Last week, as the Provisional President held his first regular weekly press conference at Caracas' White Palace, his reasoning seemed to come a little clearer. Seven times during the 45-minute session the crisply khakied admiral was asked if he would be candidate for President when regular elections are held next November. Seven times he hemmed, hawed and refused to push his khaki cap out of the campaign ring...
...sitting at a desk and putting his face in a bunch of papers . . . Actually [the President] ought to be trying to keep his mind free of inconsequential detail and doing his own thinking on the basic principles and factors that he believes are important, so that he can make clearer and better judgments...
...grows steadily clearer that Ned, a tycoon in pottery, and Robert, a successful artist, are only a pair of sad dogs snarling for the same old bone, and barking up the wrong tree. Between the artist who sneers at "gobbets of bourgeois wisdom" and the businessman who is nothing but "a lousy provincial potter," it turns out to be fat, good-natured old Joe who achieves love, wisdom and an upbeat ending for good-natured young Novelist Wain...