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...boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky: "We live in a white society. Did you ever see black snow?" Another addict springs upstage smelling a fix. "Who said snow?" From time to time, a jazz combo breaks into sound, underscores the crying paralysis of the junkies' willing suspension of life...
...that the real problem is Martin's management. Critics point to a series of personnel shifts, con fusion and poor morale throughout the company. At times, the troubleshooters sent out from Baltimore only stepped on each other's toes, and compounded the trouble they were sent to fix. For some plant areas, everything operates by word of mouth. In others red tape is so thick that the head of a subdepartment must clear everything he does with his department chief. Martin's men at Cape Canaveral are as good as any. Yet they complain of silly rules...
...housing starts will ease off to 1,200,000 from 1,350,000 this year, said Paradiso, because of tight money. But the demand for appliances and furniture will continue to go up. Instead of buying a new house, more consumers will fix up the present one, leading to an increase in remodeling expenditures...
...comparing a TV quiz show with another form of TV "suspenseful entertainment": championship golf, or perhaps football's game of the week. No one would defend a fix in sports on the wild notion that it added more...
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...