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HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). First of a two-part look at the glamour queens of the past 50 years...
...schools, there are only 18 guidance counselors, and only a quarter of the graduates go on to college. Of this number, more than half are supplied by three schools: Technical High and the two Latin schools (Boys and Girls), which in recent years have lost much of their academic glamour...
...Florida State: a 24-0 victory over favored (by eight points) University of Miami, first major upset of the college football season. The Seminole defense stifled Miami's ground game, held Glamour Boy Quarterback George Mira to 18 completions in 40 pass attempts. In another surprise, Air Force zoomed 91 yds. in the last 3 min. to nip favored Washington, 10-7. Other scores: Southern California 14 Colorado...
Once, only professionals risked their money at the perilous pastime of making such esoteric guesses as how many potatoes would bud, the quality of hog bellies, the size of the soybean crop, and the number of cocoa beans on Ghanaian trees. But after tasting quick profits with the glamour stocks of the 1950s, thousands of amateurs-from house wives to retired mailmen-are trying for even quicker profits in the fitful, fickle commodity futures. Sales on the Chicago exchange have risen 80% in three years. Most often the amateurs lose, but the tales of what might have been keep them...
...dealing with labor, many small firms must meet the wage rates set between unions and the giants; in the area of management, they have trouble at tracting the bright executives tempted by the glamour and security of bigness...