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...television shows, only 7 Love Lucy can challenge Dragnet's popularity. Last week, as they have for months, the two programs were in a seesaw battle in which first one, then the other, was temporarily ahead. Old Dragnet shows, which are rerun as Badge 714 on 126 television stations, pull more viewers (their ARE ratings run from a low of 8 in San Diego to a high of 54.6 in Norfolk, Va.) than many a first-run show, and Dragnet is still a radio attraction on Tuesday night...
...engines, the U.S. and Britain are running a seesaw race for the title of the "most powerful" (see chart). Last week it looked as if Britain's De Havilland Engine Co., Ltd. had jumped out ahead; it announced a new engine, the Gyron, with a thrust "greater than that of any other known jet engine." Although performance figures were kept secret, airmen guessed that the Gyron is in the 15,000-Ib.-thrust class, compared to 10,000 to 12,000 Ibs. for the current model of Pratt & Whitney's J-57, which had been rated the world...
...Kansas City, Mo., the Indiana University basketball team took a seesaw thriller from the University of Kansas 69-68, to win the N.C.A.A. title...
Hurley, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover and a Roosevelt emissary to China and Russia, was running a seesaw race with Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez...
Massachusetts. Paul Dever, the Democratic incumbent and the hoarse, perspiring National Convention keynoter, found himself in a seesaw battle with Republican Congressman Christian Herter. Dever's great strength was in Boston, which he carried by more than 120,000 votes (while Stevenson was carrying it by only 65,000). But it was not quite enough. Scholarly Christian Herter carried the state by more than...