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When a Midwest college boy was recently invited to fly to New York to be a guest on a TV quiz show, the airline shipped along the thing that made him distinctive: a 2,300-lb. sugar cookie that the lad had baked himself. Nowadays, the nation's airlines are willing to carry almost anything-including some substantial losses-in the rush to fill their cargo bins. Air freight (excluding air mail and air express) has increased more than 50% in the last four years, reaching a volume of $230 million last year. This year it will increase another...
ALUMNI FUN (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new quiz show in which college and university alumni compete for financial grants for their schools. Tonight's contestants include Janet Leigh, David Susskind and Darren McGavin...
...first time since the scandals, a network ventured a return to the big money quiz, with contestants competing for $100,000 on an ABC show called 100 Grand. The master of cere monies behaved like an inquisitor, suggesting that nothing could possibly go wrong, honesty-wise. Something did go wrong. Nobody was watching. The show has already folded...
Dunlop said he was opposed to the indiscriminate sectioning of middle group courses; to be valuable the section hour must be well planned and "must have an independent life of its own." "I'm somewhat opposed to the standard quiz section approach," he stated...
Ford was a dream project for the hot-shot young Air Forces team, bent on applying its service-learned management-control methods to industry. The ten began a department-by-department survey of the company, asked so many questions that they were dubbed the "Quiz Kids" by resentful Ford oldtimers. When they swung into action, the name was derisively changed to Whiz Kids. They switched Ford's capital, long left fallow, into interest-bearing accounts that promptly began earning Ford $4,500,000 a year, analyzed everything from assembly lines to suppliers' carburetors to learn how to trim...