Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found. As she dances on the vertical comb, the divergence of her dance right or left from the vertical indicates the direction of the flowers in relation to the sun. Its duration tells how far away they are-.4 sec. for 200 yds., 1.3 sec. for 1,000. The rate of wiggling is important, too. Dr. Steche attached tiny magnets to bees' bottoms and found that a rich food-find produces faster wiggling...
...political reasons, the unbeaten U.S.S.R. team refused to play Nationalist China at the world basketball championships in Santiago. Chile, thereby forfeited its claim to the title. Brazil was declared champion, with a second-rate U.S. Air Force team runner-up. ¶ For the third straight year, World Champions David Jenkins, 22, and Carol Heiss. 19, skated rings around the opposition, scored victories in the national senior figure skating championships at Rochester...
...Illnesses and injuries severe enough to require medical attention or keep the victim at home totaled 437,886,000, an average of 2.6 for every American. ¶ The weaker sex was only slightly weaker-2.7 such illnesses, against 2.5 for men. ¶ Children under five had the highest illness rate, 4; oldsters over 65 had the lowest, 1.6. ¶ Days lost from work totaled 356,500,000; from school 273,200,000. The survey, first of its kind in 20 years, recorded a higher-than-average illness rate because the invading Asian virus boosted the incidence of influenza above normal...
Tall Story (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) hinges on that old story of campus comedy, the Big Game in Jeopardy. According to its boosters, Custer College has "higher scholastic standards, a better basketball team, and a lower rate of pregnancy" than any little coed college in the Midwest. The haloed hoopster of the basketball team, a stilt-high science major named Ray Blent (played with engaging cyclonic dis-coordination by Robert Elston), is in love with the pert, bouncy girl cheerleader (Nina Wilcox). When $1,500 in fix money is anonymously planted in his overcoat, visions of marrying...
Last year before the hockey game with Brown, word was printed that "the Bruins, with a 6-6-2 record, have a second-rate team with a first-rate goalie." Tonight at Watson Rink the varsity will risk a 6-6-2 record against what is now a second-rate team with a second-rate goalie...