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...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Third from the Sun, by Rod Serling,concerns two families who try to escape society on a space ship. With Fritz Weaver...
...Bruins' goalie, Rod McGarry, was voted the outstanding individual player in the tournament, turning away a total of 117 shots in three games. Against Providence, the stocky junior held the Friars scoreless until 14:12 of the final period. While his teammates, skated senseless by the speedy Toronto team the day before, permitted a barrage of 41 shots...
...with which she has kept her quick and sensitive emotions unfettered by theory and cant. "I've never liked to read," says she. "But I don't cover up my ignorance ; if I admit it, people will teach me. On the third TV show I ever did, Rod Steiger told me about Stanislavsky. I said, 'Who's he?' Rod gave me Stanislavsky's book about acting. I still have it, but I've never read it." Happily she maintains, if not the innocence, at least the ingenuousness of the grown-up little girl...
After the decision was made in 1955, Ford ran more studies to make sure the new car had precisely the right "personality." Research showed that Mercury buyers were generally young and hot-rod-inclined, while Pontiac, Dodge and Buick appealed to middle-aged people. Edsel was to strike a happy medium. As one researcher said, it would be "the smart car for the younger executive or professional family on its way up." To get this image across, Ford even went to the trouble of putting out a 60-page memo on the procedural steps in the selection of an advertising...
...Wilson of Amherst College sparked significant action at the annual meeting of the powerful College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. Speaking for 15 New England colleges, Dean Wilson had a fairly startling suggestion: add an English essay question to C.E.E.B.'s objective-question tests, the chief divining rod for admission to 287 U.S. colleges and universities. With some misgivings, the meeting finally approved Dean Wilson's urgent proposal. Result: next year, after a decade of multiple-choice questions, the famed "College Boards" will require words as well...