Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have given false security to the students who have scored 200 on the College Board S.A.T.'s. Your article [Jan. 5] states the minimum score is 0, but you get 200 points for just signing your name to the answer sheet. The S.A.T. scale runs from 200 to 800. A hopeful note: a survey of the 550 Eastern colleges and universities participating with this Center reveals that these admissions directors look first at the applicant's course grade average, then at his class rank, finally at his College Board scores...
...DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Bobby Darin, Dean Stockwell, Lloyd Nolan and Sugar Ray Robinson in "The Cage," a play about convicts plotting escape from a minimum-security prison...
...shrewder business guardians; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Although several of his 29 works (Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva) became Broadway successes between 1902 and 1938, Middleton's most enduring script-written while he was Dramatists' Guild president from 1927 to 1929-is entitled the Minimum Basic Agreement, which still governs the theater's royalty system...
...city's history, as well as an adjacent 29-story office building, the superstructure of cavernous Pennsylvania Station had to be demolished and all its facilities moved underground. This meant scheduling construction so that the 200,000 travelers pouring into the station each day would suffer minimum inconvenience. Although computers were used to lick the logistics, the station's baggage-claim area still has had to be moved no fewer than 16 times since construction began back...
...Hang-Up. The games get trickier in other courses. More than 55 companies have each paid a minimum $6,300 to send more than 10,000 salesmen through the 25-hour "professional selling skills" course. In small groups of six or so, the pitchmen analyze realistic, tape-recorded selling situations, then break off for "roleplay" sessions with "pretend" customers. The students soon overcome what Xerox's Ted Lee says is the salesmen's major hangup: "Most salesmen hate to ask for a final sales commitment because they are afraid of getting turned down...