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Quizmaster Groucho Marx can usually talk his way out of any difficulty on NBC's You Bet Your Life. But two contestants recently trying for a $1,000 jackpot stumped...
...month to go, three of the five all-winning teams, Michigan State, Maryland and Georgia Tech, have a good chance to end with perfect records. The other two, Southern California and U.C.L.A., will meet Nov. 22 in a game that should leave one in possession of the Rose Bowl jackpot, and still in the running for the pollsters' mythical title: the nation's top team...
...football game of the week was a grudge game, and the stakes were high: a chance for the Rose Bowl jackpot. California, ranked fourth in the nation and trained in an offense that had not been shut out in 60 games, was meeting an old enemy: seventh-ranked University of Southern California (U.S.C.), owner of a bone-rattling defense that had yielded only 19 points in five games. California, a six-point favorite, had the three top-ranked running backs of the Pacific Coast, including All-America Candidate Johnny Olszewski; U.S.C., a conservative single-wing team, had a middleweight...
...room apartment was soon full to overflowing. He appealed to the city for a place to house his collection, and was turned down. Churchmen told him that his motorcycling in layman's clothes was a scandal. So he went again to the King and hit another royal jackpot: an order creating Santander's Regional Prehistoric Museum, with himself as curator...
...pyramid which supports the Temple of Inscriptions. A flat stone slab was found to have a crack in it, and workmen prying away at the crack discovered a dark flight of steps leading down into the pyramid. Ruz knew at once that he had a chance at an archaeological jackpot; Mayan pyramids are not supposed to have stairways in them...