Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game isolates its two contestants in glass-walled booths. Each tries to amass 21 points by answering questions in categories over which he has no choice. The questions are worth from one to eleven points according to difficulty, and by picking the number, he can choose how hard a question he wants (Van Doren's frequent strategy is to pick the tough 10-and 11-point questions and go for a quick 21). At the end of the second round, either contestant can stop the game if he thinks he is ahead. The winner gets $500 a point...
Lion Follows Christian. Twenty One has built its week-to-week suspense on whether Van Doren will keep plunging or quit while he is so far ahead. By now, he risks little to keep going. It would take eleven tie games followed by a 21-0 defeat to wipe out his winnings. His income-tax bracket is so high that if he were defeated in a game that cost him, say, $20,000, he would actually be out of pocket only $2,200 (see chart). Of the $122,000 he has won, income taxes will let the unmarried...
...seventeen and eighteen-and-a-half. This allowance is the same granted in the six-month reserve program. But this means that those enlistees who go to college must drop a term, and those beginning careers will also be seriously inconvenienced. The NGA's proposal of a compulsory eleven-week basic training session incorporated into summer vacation would be much more attractive, and according to them, just as effective. The Air National Guard's enlistment demands are like this proposal. They require each enlistee to attend an Air Force technical school, from eight weeks to two years, depending...
...team with the leading skiiers will enter the Hanover meet. Although they are rated ninth in a field of eleven, several individual skiers are expected to place high...
...white films. Ross noted that CinemaScope is fine for sweeping horizons, but added: "If the subject ¶ has power and the scenes themselves are what you want to show, don't tinsel it up with CinemaScope." ¶Sorely beset, RKO peddled distribu tion rights to 44 films (including eleven not yet released) to prosperous rival Universal-International, hoped to save some $7,000,000 by the deal, wearily acknowledged that it is exploring a new source of revenue: the sale of oil under studio lots...