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...keep tabs on TV's most persistent and most boring feud, the Sunday-night duel between NBC's Steve Allen and CBS's Ed Sullivan, the TV industry checks the Monday-morning Trendex ratings and awards the battle stars to the show that captured more viewers. Last week the broadcasters learned from pulse-taker A.C. Nielsen Co. a crucial fact the viewing public knew a long time ago. As many as 14 times within the hour, Nielsen deduced, audiences switch from Sullivan to Allen and back. The average viewer remains "loyal" to one of the shows only...
Bryan lost the nation's sympathy when he argued against admission of scientific evidence as irrelevant, thus avoiding "the duel to the death" he had promised. Without the evidence in his defense, Scopes was convicted, but the Appellate Court later reversed the decision on a technicality...
LeRoy Collins said he would try to settle the duel. Meanwhile, Edwards was hurt by all the fuss over his campaign. "I have been mistreated and misunderstood," said the old crusader...
...that nobody drank "more than was good for him." In time, however, some did, and the taverns caused various disturbances with England, including a war. In 1747, when a fire turned the General Court into a street, its members met at the Royal Exchange Tavern, where, later, the only duel ever to be fought on Boston Common was started...
...Duel in the Sky. For all astronomers know, say Morrison and Gold, half of the galaxies may be made of antimatter. They will be pushing their neighbors away by antigravity, but the light that comes from them will reveal nothing unusual about them. Only when galaxies of hostile type happen to collide in spite of anti-gravity will their matter interact violently. This may be happening. Several odd objects deep in space, e.g., the M 87 galaxy, seem to get large amounts of energy from an unknown source. These may be pairs of hostile galaxies, fighting vast duels of annihilation...