Word: earnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lure an audience back to the faltering $64,000 Question (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.), CBS set up a stunt based on a bingo mutation that can earn a home viewer as much as the classic...
...Brooklyn docks where, as he well knows, bigtime crime is rampant. "Sometimes guys come to work on the docks," he says. "They hope to make money, save it and get away and go into business. But they never make it. How can they? Where else can you earn that kind of dough...
Kansas-born Patton is the son of an engineer who helped found a short-lived cooperative farm at Nucla, Colo. Jim worked on farms, took odd jobs to earn extra money, paid his way through Western State College of Colorado, wound up with a Depression-days job selling typewriters. "Jim was a terrific salesman," says a longtime acquaintance. "He has always had a tendency for main-chancing...
Economics aside, there is also the question of international politics. "The Russians are smart," said Clayton. "They roam around the world offering trade. We give away some millions here and some there. No self-respecting people want charity; they want to earn their way. To seize the initiative in the cold war, we must first make ourselves worthy of the leadership of the free world. But we will never do that so long as we continue to act in the short-term special interest of our minority groups." Concluded Clayton: "Our oil imports come partly from Venezuela (buyer annually...
...earn his keep. Author Durrell taught English, and his giggling teen-age girl pupils promptly became infatuated with Teacher. Asked to submit an essay on her favorite historical character, one girl in the class wrote: "I have no historical character but in the real life there is one I love. He is writer. I dote him and he dotes me . . . My glad is very...