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...week from other stations that he has licensed to use it. A similar Storz giveaway, in which the station selects prizewinning telephone numbers, had to be dropped by KOHW this month when the telephone company complained that hundreds of subscribers were being bombarded with idle calls from jackpot hunters...
...next week, under the show's rules, he was rescued and given another try. Last week, with no option, under the rules, but to try again, Lenny correctly answered an intricate, five-part question that required 13 answers, and became the fourth winner of the biggest quiz-show jackpot of them...
...active duty at Brooklyn's Navy Yard, broke through for the top award of $100,000 by naming six groups of women from Greek and Roman fables. And William and James Egan, a pair of outsized* lawyers from Hartford, Conn., were poised only a step away from the jackpot of CBS's The $64,000 Question...
...bundle of 5,000,000 lire ($8,000); in Britain a Pakistani college girl got ?1,024 ($2,867) for her knowledge of Chaucer. Mexican viewers of The 64,000 Peso ($5,120) Question were grumbling that the sponsor was asking impossible questions to avoid paying the jackpot, but finally a textile engineer named Jaime Olvera broke the bank by identifying two of Cortez' scouts in his war with the Aztecs. Said a spokesman for the sponsor* (a shirt company): "This will prove our good faith...
...bring small fortunes to the holders of correspondingly numbered tickets. Even the bored lottery clerks buy tickets, as recently happened in Western Australia when Clerk Neil Watts, writing down the numbers as they were drawn, shouted, "Hey, that's me!" discovered that he had won a $6,750 jackpot...