Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure to respond to the subcommittee's invitation to testify had already caused NBC, which employs him at $50,000 a year as consultant and as a Today commentator, to suspend him. And many of the characters who had surrounded Van Doren during his 14-week climb toward his $129,000 winnings on NBC's Twenty One told the subcommittee that the show was blatantly rigged until NBC bounced it off the air a year ago. The crassness of the deceit, the number of people involved and the relative gullibility or negligence of network executives were startling...
...nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
...Room at the Top progresses, it focuses increasingly on the hero's motives and finds them increasingly wanting. What is originally seen as a commendable drive to better oneself is finally shown to be only a tragically petty battle against tragically petty people. For each rise in the climb to the top, there is clear evidence of the personal deterioration of the hero...
...wire-President Eisenhower's 1960 budget-is still gamely keeping its balance. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans reported last week. Said normally solemn Accountant Stans, fighting hard to smother a grin: during the half-year since the President presented his budget to Congress, the economy's energetic climb has added $1.9 billion to the Administration's income estimate for fiscal 1960 (ending next June). But over the same span, the outgo estimate has also crept upward by $1.9 billion, reaching $78.9 billion. Biggest reason for the outgo increase: rising interest rates, upping the cost of carrying...
...building philosophies, notably an end to years of emphasizing styling rather than mechanical changes. From now on, the big emphasis will be on mechanical improvements and innovations. The 80-h.p. Corvair has them aplenty. It gets 25 to 30 miles per gallon, can speed up to 88 m.p.h., and climb an ice-covered grade of 30° that would stop a standard car. Its flat "pancake" aluminum engine, which has six horizontally opposed cylinders (two banks of cylinders in a horizontal position), weighs only...