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Charles Van Doren's unprecedented quiz-winning streak -(TIME, Feb. 11) last week brought him another $16,000 in the Monday night game of Twenty One. Grand total: $138,000. As always, the lanky Columbia English instructor, just turned 31, put himself-and his audience -through the wringer to get his answers. But out they came in time's nick to give him two perfect 21 scores against Challengers John Kieran Jr., 35, son of the Information Please expert, and Dr. Hall Griffith, 57, a writer. The wringer produced stunning oddments of knowledge, e.g., the members of George...
...keeping the emotional wringer pressed morbidly tight, Novelist Hanley sometimes squeezes life as well as mercy out of his story. Powerful though it is, The Closed Harbor never quite proves its intended point, that the perdition of Marius is the condition...
...printed in recent years have been symbols of a bewildered world at mid-century - Mark III, the fabulous calculating machine (Jan. 23, 1950), the Pentagon (July 2, 1951), the Kremlin's warlike peace dove (Sept. 17, 1951), the partly human figure of the U.S. taxpayer in the wringer (March 10), and television's fixed eye (July...
Already, Perón's deflationary policy has driven the value of the peso on the black market from 30 to the dollar at the first of the year to 19 last week. By making Argentine business go through the wringer, Perón apparently hopes to 1) drive workers back to the land, where they are badly needed. 2) cut demand for imported goods and thus ease the foreign-exchange problem. 3) force more widespread price cuts and 4) drive more marginal operators into bankruptcy. Still cheerful and cocky, Peron promised never to help dealers by relaxing...
...speedily drawn up for ten other holding companies awaiting death. Said Chairman Donald Cook, the man who pushed SEC and the two giant holding companies into final action: "The package deals will end the era of the holding company. Today the utilities that have gone through the wringer are depression-proof...