Word: strongly
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Many were the kinds of fixes, testified Koplin. Among them: the Area Fix, i.e., questions were pitched within the contestants' strong and specific areas of knowledge. (This was usually the case, declared Koplin, with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions had been asked in pre-game tests) and the Emergency (questions and answers were given the contestants, usually just before the show). "Emergencies" produced some Keystone Cops fiascos; often the fixer had to spring down to the celebrated bank vault, where the questions were held, quickly slip in the rigged...
...next two years." Germans complain of the "foreign menace" to their livelihood, while Italian shopkeepers lobby insistently to prevent local city governments from granting licenses to the new stores. But the trend is all to the supermarkets. When a big new market opened in Milan recently, the strong Communist element there attacked it as an imperialist plot, until they discovered that workers were swamping the store at the rate of 23,000 customers a week. As one Milan supermarket manager says, comparing a neat package of sugar with the fly-flecked open sack from which old-fashioned grocers dispense their...
...slowest of the Big Three to enter the small-car race made a strong bid last week to catch up in a hurry. Into production went Chrysler Corp.'s compact Valiant station wagon, well ahead of Ford, which will not have a station wagon on the market until next spring, and Corvair, lagging far behind, which will not have one until fall...
They Came to Cordura. Hollywood's standard brand of horsemeat is dished up with a strong sauce of metaphysics in this Gary Cooper western about a coward who shows the meaning of courage...
High-scoring center forward Armando Garces is known throughout Ivy territory for his propensity for trampling goalies. Garces will be joined on the attack by insides Bob Pearson and Willem Van Den Toorn. Arnold Hetzer leads a strong halfback corps, and Dick Press paces the defense from his fullback position. Goalie Denny Master has been difficult to score on so far this year...