Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sparked by a bad-tempered, red-faced, 45-year-old bachelor named Gilbert Harding, the BBC's What's My Line?, like its U.S. counterpart, has four sharp-witted panelists. These regulars ask pointed questions of each guest in an effort to find out his occupation. On both the U.S. and British shows, the early questions sound alike. Is your work essential? Do you control a staff? Can you eat what you make? But there the similarity ends...
This week, Sponsor Ralston Purina Co. signed a new five-year contract for both the TV show and its radio counterpart (Saturday, 10:30 a.m., ABC). Ralston also has built a 35-ft., $30,000 Space Patrol rocket ship that is now touring the U.S., on a truck trailer, for the edification of the show's young fans...
Against considerable opposition, he siphoned off $13 million in counterpart funds to reconstruct "the minds and hearts of the Germans," rebuilt universities, pumped another $3.5 million into a capital pool which new democratic newspapers could use for buying themselves out from under ex-Nazi owners...
Balancing this is his disappointment that a rugby back can't control the play like his football counterpart. "No matter how good a man is," he says, "he's useless without the other backs . . . . It's the threat of the line as a whole that counts...
...over-$5,000 bracket; but 41% of the C and D people are in it, too. In the learned (and lowpaying) professions, the Phi Beta Kappa's advantage is greatest: he is twice as likely to be making over $5,000 as his C or D counterpart. In business, his advantage dwindles to almost nothing...