Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the fellagha rebels. He smashed the rebellion ruthlessly but managed to keep political talks going at the same time. When Premier Mendès-France dramatically flew to Tunis with his offer of home rule (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), De Latour was made Resident General, partly as a reward, partly to appease the fears of the French colons, who thought Mendès was going...
Last week, after four months of sleuthing, bolstered by a proffered $100,000 (Hong Kong) reward, Hong Kong police issued a warrant for the arrest of one Chow Tse-ming, a $25-a-month airfield employee who had helped clean out the plane during its stopover, and, presumably, planted a bomb in the starboard wheel-well. Because the actual deaths occurred far beyond the Hong Kong police jurisdiction, Chow could only be charged with "conspiracy to murder" (maximum penalty: ten years). They would also have to find him. One month after the air crash, Chow fled to Formosa...
...servant, the police arrived in time to kill one assailant while the others fled. Loath to borrow trouble in matters involving Formosa and Peking, the Hong Kong police at first attempted to dismiss the whole incident as "a simple robbery," but later, thinking better of it, posted a whopping reward of $3,500 for the missing murderers...
...nothing, but give your loyalty to any popular cause in the vicinity." 2) "Work centrally . . . You should not rise to the top. Get ahead, but moderately." 3) "Play centrally. Never be a champion . . . You will know the joys of coming in second when the chips are down." The reward for all this: "The ecstasy of mediocrity...
...until he had thought of a "great" idea. His mind turned toward quiz shows and Mount Everest, and he thought that the Everest of quiz shows would be one with increasingly tough peaks to scale. Then he wondered what he could give as a commensurate reward to anyone who scaled the highest peak. He remembered an old giveaway show, Take It or Leave It, later known as The $64 Question. He said to himself, "$640?" No. "$6,400?" No. Then it came to him. He knew he couldn't miss with The $64,000 Question...