Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead in suitable all-American-boy style. As Applegate, alias Mephistopheles, Ray Walston is properly sardonic and fast-paced. Devra Korwin, who handles the part of the standard siren played by Gwen Verdon on Broadway, is the major sex interest of the show. As a dancer, she is expert, but as a singer she is better to look at than to listen...
...Twenty One, which soared to success on the suspense created by Van Doren's consecutive appearances, CBS's $64,000 Question last week changed its ground rules so that a successful contestant can return week after week, may go on until he wins $256,000. First memory expert to be eligible for the new goal is Rob Strom, ten-year-old Bronx science whiz, who won his first $64,000 with barely a pause over some half-dozen tough questions...
Before an audience at the National Press Club. Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. made an unusual admission for an expert economist-or indeed any kind of expert. Since the first of the year, said Chairman Martin, the FRB's governors "really haven't known which way the business currents are running." And until they do know, the Federal Reserve will follow a policy of "passive" credit restraint, neither tightening nor loosening the nation's money supply. "We are simply trying to let the forces of supply and demand operate in the money market...
Such tactics were heavily criticized by Washington Attorney Alfons Landa, a Penn-Texas shareholder and expert proxy fighter (TIME, Dec. 17). He heads a Penn-Texas "protective committee," financed with $80,000 from Robert Morse Jr., which was formed to start a backfire and perhaps oust Silberstein from his own company. Landa charged that Silberstein himself has shared secretly in huge, illegal profits from his stock deals, is putting Penn-Texas in the hole by overborrowing and selling off company assets to finance the campaign against Morse. Some examples...
Died. Chang Chia Hutukhtu, 64, among the most important "Living Buddhas" (not to be confused with Baltimore resident Dilowa Hutukhtu who defended Far East expert Owen Lattimore in 1950 against charges of aiding Communists in China, and who is known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died...