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...players-Jackie Coogan, Hans Conried, Dorothy Hart, Carol Haney, the late Judy Tyler-an almost telepathic quickness. Sponsors (currently: LIFE, Amoco and Hamm's Beer) like the show because it is economical ($10,000 a week) and usually bags a respectable rating. Actors like the show, despite a meager $250 stipend, because it requires no preparation, is fun to play, and gives them a welcome chance to ham it up. Vincent Price credits it with changing his career: he could get nothing but "heavy" roles until producers saw him clowning his way through successive performances on Pantomime Quiz...
Today-only 71 years later-Los Angeles groans in the echo of that cry. A once meager patch of sand in Southern California, its rubber-band boundaries stretch past a natural basin rimmed by mountains, flow over the hilltops and peaks into the valleys and deserts beyond, nudge the very Pacific beaches...
...been a long, hard pull. Since 1953, when a parliamentary committee showed that every M.P. spent an average of three-quarters of his meager $2,800 yearly salary on expenses (using whatever space was available in lounge or restaurant for an office), it had been obvious to all that Britain's legislators were grossly underpaid. The pay scale of M.P.s was determined originally on the theory that they were gentlemen of means-as they originally were, before laboring men (some of whom now get supplementary pay from unions) and poorer Tories came to dominate the House...
...appalling poverty of the average country cure. Dependent upon handouts for food and fuel, he often spends the winters in near-starvation, and it is becoming increasingly common for parish priests to solicit odd jobs in the neighborhood-house-painting, plastering, milking or shoe-repairing-to supplement the meager dole of the church. U.S. Catholic parishes are accustomed to supporting their priests, but the French, whose government paid the priesthood until 1905, have been conditioned to thinking of this as the responsibility of the state and keeping their hands in their pockets...
Eventually he had 30 men poring over books on mathematics, electronics and TV. He made the most of his meager equipment-a radio signal tracer, an R.F. generator, an oscilloscope, a vacuum-tube voltmeter, a pile of TV parts. Self-educated in math, he taught his students algebra and trigonometry, did not hesitate to pile on the work ("Brother, I really load them"). Though some of his students had been chronic troublemakers in the prison, they soon reformed. All have been perfectly willing to spend hours each night wrestling with such assignments as: "Draw up six different parallel circuits, showing...