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The general election was not due until next year, but last week in London's factory and residential district of South Hammersmith, both parties had a chance to test their strength in a preview of greater things to come. Each contestant put everything he had into the battle.
Houston is expected to take over the heavyweight responsibilities vacated by Pete Fuller, spectacular, unlimited contestant for the past two seasons. The first meet is with MIT on December 11.
The first contestant, failing to explain what "atom" meant in the original Greek, was penalized with a harmless jolt from a
Van de Graaff generator; a second contestant was given a Geiger counter, asked to search the audience for a radioactive $100 bill; a third, trying to choose between two star sapphires-a natural stone ($5,000) and one made by scientists ($250)-picked the cheaper stone.
Each contestant will read a short speech containing key words: oyster, oil, saw, idea, Long Island. Presumably, the girl who most consistently approximates erster, erl, sawr, idear and lonGUYland will be the winner.