Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high school days, Thach was a fine athlete, only a fair student; happily, his football coach was his math teacher, and his track coach was the physics instructor. He was in his third year at Fordyce High when his brother, James Harmon Thach Jr., was admitted to Annapolis. Says Submarine Hunter Thach, with a sense of wonder: "I remember how surprised I was when I first thought about the seas and realized I had never even given them a thought before. I knew so little I was under the impression that if you took a handful of ocean water...
...advertisers' claims for toothpaste and tooth powders and also for tranquilizers. charged a subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations-and it's up to the Federal Trade Commission to do something. The subcommittee's prescription : force the manufacturers to agree on a code of fair practices in advertising...
...contestants privately complained about the Jewish advantage in having only the Old Testament to master, and one of the jury admitted that "it wasn't quite fair to set a Jew against those who give to the New Testament equal importance with the Old." But Winner Amos Hacham this week is a hero in Israel...
...Quiz shows that replace crooked quiz shows may be regarded as fair game for crooks: televiewers from New York, Massachusetts and Virginia have already used pen, paste pot and scissors in an effort to break the bank on Top Dollar, CBS replacement for Dotto (see above). Since the show promised up to $5,000 for dollar bills bearing certain serial numbers, the light-fingered operators altered other serial numbers in order to qualify. All they won was a Secret Service warning that repetition might bring them an alternate prize: up to 15 years in prison and a $5.000 fine...
...real trouble was the show itself. Maria Golovin, Menotti's first opera score since The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954) and his third commissioned by NBC was the only new musical work of any importance unveiled at the Brussels fair. It was a disappointment...