Ring In the New
TIME
News Quiz (THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1952 TO FEBRUARY 1953)
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with
Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
(Copyright 1963 by TIME Inc.)
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, you needn't mark opposite the question. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet.
FIVE CHOICES
For most of the 105 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example:
0. Russia's boss is:
1. Kerensky.
2. Lenin.
3. Stalin.
4. Trotsky.
5. Stakhonov.
Stalin, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3--standing for Stalin--has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
National Affairs
RING IN THE NEW
1. In the biggest vote in the U. S. history, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President by a popular majority of:
1. 52%.
2. 55%.
3. 59%.
4. 61%.
5. 73%.
2. Some election races were close. When the final counts were in, all but one of these were true:
1. Dennis Chavez beat Pat Hurley.
2. Henry Cabot Lodge lost to John Kennedy.
3. Soapy Williams lost to Fred M. Alger.
4. William Jenner won over Henry Schricker.
5. Christian Hexter beat Paul A Dever.
3. En route home from Korea, Ike asked for a meeting with MacArthur, who had:
1. Offered to return to active service.
2. Refused to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
3. Accepted the N.A.M. presidency
4. Hinted he had a plan to end the war.
5. Threatened to write a book about U.S. failures in the Pacific.
4. In one of his last official acts, Truman presented Congress with a $78.6 billion budget:
1. More than his administration had ever spent in one year.
2. More than half the national debt.
3. More than the U.S. ever spent in one year.
4. Less than the Republicans would like to spend.
5. Low enough to permit a tax cut while balancing the budget.
5. "War has changed its ... dimension," said Truman in his State of the Union message, referring to:
1. Britain's Abomb.
2. A huge new naval base.
3. "Antiquated" aircraft carriers.
4. A grounded flying saucer.
5. The hydrogen bomb.
6. Ike, in his State of the Union message, spoke of "a new, positive foreign policy," announced that:
1. U.S. military aid to Europe would halt at once.
2. The Seventh Fleet would stop shielding Red China.
3. All his talks would open with prayer.
4. U.S. troops would be used in Indo-China.
5. He would abide strictly by the Yalta pact.
7. Richard Nixon said that the nickname Veep:
1. Had become a badge of dishonor.
2. Was one he would welcome.
3. Would make him sound too old.
4. Made no sense in foreign tongues.
5. Should be retired with the man, like the numerals of great football players.
8. Because of his stock holdings, quick approval of Charles Erwin Wilson as Defense Secretary was blocked by:
1. U.S. law.
2. A coalition of Democrats and Southern Republicans.
3. A split between Ike and Taft forces.
4. A late-hour directive from outgoing President Truman.
5. A 90-year-old Supreme Court decision.
The 83rd Congress
9. Republicans had bare control of both Houses. The Senate split, 48-47, and one who brought a chair to "sit in the middle of the aisle":
1. James Kem.
2. Harry Cain.
3. Alben Barkley.
4. W. Stuart Symington.
5. Wayne Morse.
10. Back again as Speaker of the House, a position he lost four years ago, was:
1. Charles Halleck.
2. Sam Rayburn.
3. Daniel Reed.
4. Joe Martin.
5. Styles Bridges.
11. Of 1,000 bills dropped into the hopper as the House opened, No. 1 went to a measure:
1. Giving Ike a $50,000 tax exemption.
2. To improve rivers and harbors.
3. To cut individual income taxes an average of 11%.
4. To repeal the excess-profits tax.
5. Cutting Truman's $7.5 billion foreign-aid request.
12. After a threatened opening-day tussle in the Senate, a bipartisan vote of 70 to 21 put aside an effort to:
1. Table the tidelands oil question.
2. Give Adlai Stevenson an unofficial voice in Senate debates.
3. Do away with filibusters.
4. End price and wage controls.
5. Appoint Homer Ferguson assistant floor leader.
Business & Finance
13. The Williston Basin moved into the news as the site of:
1. A mammoth new H-bomb plant.
2. The country's biggest new oil discoveries.
3. The nation's ideal location for industry.
4. Disastrous crop-destroying floods.
5. The southern terminal of the Alcan highway.
14. In one of the most harrowing scripts since The Great Train Robbery, the tangled affairs of RKO Pictures recently featured all but one of these episodes:
1. A Chicago syndicate gained majority stock control.
2. A group of small stockholders demanded a temporary receiver.
3. Howard Hughes moved back into control.
4. Hughes put up his film, The Outlaw, as a sale binder.
5. Atlas Corporation's Floyd Odium considered buying back control.
15. "Clearly [Karl] Marx didn't know all the Engles," declared Ben Fairless. Under capitalism, he said, the employees of U.S. Steel:
1. Could buy control of the company.
2. Had no inherent right to strike.
3. Were no different from medieval serfs.
4. Were better Communists than Marx himself.
5. Were the last bulwark of unorganized labor.
16. Industry representatives on the Wage Stabilization Board walked out when Truman awarded an increase of $1.90 a day to the:
1. Auto workers.
2. Civil Service employees
3. Soft-coal miners.
4. Bus drivers.
5. Textile workers.
Phyz Quiz
Pictured at left are ten men and women in Ike's official family. From the 14 titles or symbols below, select the one which applies to each person and write the number on the answer sheet.
17. John Foster Dulles
18. Herbert Brownell Jr.
19. Ezra Benson.
20. Martin Durkin.
21. Oveta Gulp
22. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
23. Harrold E. Stassen.
24. George Humphrey.
25. Arthur Summerfield.
26. Ivy Baker Priest.
1. Federal Security Administrator.
2. United Nations
3. Secretary of Commerce.
4. Weights and Measures
5. Assistant to the President.
6. Joint Chief of Staff
7. Secretary of the Interior,
8. Postal Department
9. Secretary of the Treasury.
10. Agriculture
11. Mutual Security Director.
12 Department of Defense
13. Attorney General.
14. Treasurer of the U.S.
Legal & Otherwise
27. Japanese fried shrimp, Buddhist chants and a hoard of silver figured in the testimony of John Provoo, charged with:
1. Swindling Japanese war prisoners.
2. Dockside racketeering.
3. Treason during wartime.
4 Refusing to pay his restaurant bill.
5. Piracy.
28. The Government finally opened its antitrust suit designed to force the Du Ponts to:
1. License other firms to make their gunpowder.
2. Stop monopolizing aluminum production.
3. Divide their empire six ways
4 Sell their G.M. and U.S. Rubber stock.
5. Release their nylon patents.
29. At year's end, the Supreme Court was asked to find a legal solution for this sociological problem:
1. Conflicting state divorce laws.
2. Child labor.
3 Ownership of offshore oil deposits.
4. Segregation of Negro school children.
5. Refusal to testify on television.
30. "The defendants . . . assert that they seek justice, not mercy. What they seek, they have attained." So stated Judge Irving Kaufman in refusing to reduce the sentence of:
1. The Communist 13.
2. Harry Gold and Morton Sobell.
3. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
4. Congressmen who misused campaign funds.
5. Kefauver witnesses jailed for contempt.
31. Murder, larceny, bribery and sudden death became part of the testimony in the latest hearings before the New York State Crime Commission on:
1. Teen-age drug addiction.
2. Manhattan's call-girl racket.
3. Waterfront corruption.
4. Jewel thefts on Park Avenue.
4. Bootlegging.
INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN
The Talking Peace
32. Elected President of the 1952 U.N. General Assembly was Canada's:
1. Douglas Abbott.
2 Lester Pearson.
3. J. Maurice Richard.
4. Louis St. Laurent.
5. C. D. Howe
33. Norway's Trygve Lie resigned as U.N. Secretary-General, gave as his reason:
1. Abraham Feller's suicide.
2. The Anglo-American split.
3. His fear that his unpopularity with the Russians hampered world peace.
4. A job with Radio Free Europe.
5. U.S. Senate loyalty investigations.
34. The U.N. witnessed an unfamiliar sight--a U.S.-British rift over:
1. Selection of Lie's successor.
2. Admission of Spain.
3 India's prisoner-of-war proposal.
4. The South African issue.
5. India-Pakistan relations.
35. After lawyers advised the secretariat to fire U.S. Communists, a Federal grand jury announced:
1. Almost all U.N. workers were disloyal.
2. Lie did not have authority to do so.
3. The Fifth Amendment protects U.N. employees from being fired.
4. The U.N. must screen all employees for loyalty to their "host country."
5. The State Department had given some disloyal U.N. officials "a clean bill of health."
36. Many of NATO's 14 member nations were having money troubles, reduced arms goals on the premise that:
1. The danger of Soviet attack is "remote and receding."
2. They have large reserve forces.
3. The U. S. is not supplying enough tanks.
4. They would "wait and see what Eisenhower will do."
5. Several more countries may join NATO.
37. Hopes for a one-uniform European Army took a critical turn. These two leaders asked for a watered-down EDC:
1. Pinay and de Gasperi.
2. Khrushchev and Molotov.
3. Eisenhower and Dulles.
4. Adenauer and Mayer.
5. De Gasperi and Schuman.
38. But this country was willing to give up important sovereign rights for a United States of Europe:
1. Belgium.
2. Germany.
3. Sweden.
4. Norway.
5. The Netherlands.
The Shooting Wars
39. Entering the seventh year of war in Indo-China, French and Viet Nam soldiers counted their hard-won gains over the Viet Minh Communists led by:
1. Nam II.
2. Kim II Sung.
3. Nikolai A. Voznesensky.
4. Vo Nguyen Giap.
5. Mao Tse-tung.
40. Named to succeed General James A. Van Fleet in Korea:
1. General J. Lawton Collins.
2. Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor.
3. Major John Eisenhower.
4. General Mark Clark.
5. Lieut. General Anthony C. McAuliffe.
41. In a game called "Stop the Music," U.S. artillerymen in Korea were:
1. Directing fire at Red machine-gun nests.
2. Lobbing shells toward enemy propaganda loudspeakers.
3. Disproving claims of Marine units on the line.
4. Eliminating futile night-firing.
5. Guessing titles of World War II tunes at camp shows.
42. With Red guerrillas on the run, Sir Gerald Templer could concentrate on social problems in:
1. Formosa.
2. Hong Kong.
3. Bangalore.
4. Sumatra.
5. Malaya.
Around the Globe
43. In Czechoslovakia, confession of "Jewish bourgeois nationalism" pointed a new trend in Iron Curtain trials. Among the defendants hanged:
1. Klement Gottwald.
2. Jan Sverma.
3. Matyas Rakosi.
4. Ana Pauker.
5. Rudolf Slansky.
44. Devastating floods struck Britain and the Low Countries, their waters lapping at suburbs of:
1. Paris.
2. Copenhagen.
3. London.
4. Oslo.
5. Marseille.
45. This picture of Britain's monarch became:
1. A cause celebre in Commons.
2. An overnight hit with her subjects.
3. Moscow's favorite pinup.
4. A spur to speculation about her third child.
5. A symbol of the resurgent power of monarchy.
The Hemisphere
46. In Venezuela, Junta Boss Perez Jimenez clamped a censorship on election returns after early reports showed:
1. A write-in party was far ahead.
2. He was suffering a stunning defeat.
3. Communists were far in the lead.
4. Most ballots had been cast blank.
5. His plurality was too close for comfort.
47. A group of Canadian government and business leaders visited nine Latin American countries to:
1. Help federate the British West Indies.
2. Draw up a treaty exchanging oil for coffee.
3. Operate government-seized plants.
4. "Present a picture of Canada's industrial growth."
5. Survey the growth of dictatorships.
48. Amalia Ledon's long campaign bore fruit when Mexico's new President sent Congress a constitutional amendment to:
1. Grant full citizenship rights to women.
2. Deport William O'Dwyer.
3. Prohibit "fixing" bulls' horns.
4. Turn over the government oil monopoly to private industry.
5. Build new sewers for Mexico City.
Directions: The statements below describe recent news developments in nine of the 15 countries pinpointed on the map. Write on the answer sheet the map number which correctly locates the event described in each statement.
49. While some whites rushed to help tornado victims in a Negro shantytown here, other whites were trying blacks on a charge of advocating racial equality.
50. This country's 30,000 whites feared for their lives, even after 13,000 Kikuyu tribesmen had been rounded up as suspected members of the Mau Mau.
51. While the U.N. discussed independence for this country, the assassination of a nationalist leader set off riots and a three-day strike.
52. A trouble spot cleared somewhat when Naguib agreed that people of this country should vote whether to join Egypt or remain independent.
53. Off the coast of this country, a band of hooded pirates boarded a Dutch ship and took everything that could be moved, including $100,000 worth of cigarettes.
54. One bright spot: the head of this country's government, first Negro Prime Minister in any British colony, made his first official call this month on the popularly-elected leaders of nearby Liberia.
55. Tough American oil drillers began quitting their jobs here when the King banned all imports of intoxicating liquors.
56. Fist-swinging free-for-alls punctuated debates on an electoral reform bill, finally passed in this country.
57. Aided by U.N., this Arab country planned to fight extremist agitation in refugee camps with a $30 million reclamation project.
OBIT
Within the last few months, death came to many noted men and women. For each question below two correct answers are possible. Write in either name.
58. In November two great labor leaders died--the heads of C.I.O. and A.F.L. Name one.
59. Italy lost two famous citizens. Name either the 1919 "Big Four" statesman--or the philosopher Mussolini called "the one man in all Italy whom I fear."
60. Of the women whose deaths made headlines, one was world-renowned for her treatment of polio, another for her treatment of royalty. Name one.
61. Death claimed the first President of a new nation--as well as the Australian statesman who once had his secretary tell reporters, "As soon as he's died, he'll notify the press." Name one.
OTHER EVENTS
62. His unfailing gusto for life's beer & beef marks the latest work of Anglo-Irish author:
1. Joyce Gary--Prisoner of Grace.
2. Evelyn Waugh--Men at Arms.
3. Barnaby Conrad--Matador.
4. Aldous Huxley--The Devils of Loudun.
5. Stephen Potter--One-Upmanship.
63. Hollywood's "characters" were in for some first-class competition when:
1. Bertrand Russell moved in with his new bride.
2. Edith Sitwell set out to write a screen play.
3. Carl Sandburg arrived to film his autobiography.
4. Sidney Franklin opened a West Coast school for bullfighters.
5. Wernher von Braun picked Hollywood for rocket tests.
64. In Moulin Rouge, Jose Ferrer plays the role of tormented French painter:
1. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
2. Vincent Van Gogh.
3. Arthur Rimbaud.
4. Le Petit Abner.
5. Maurice Utrillo.
65. For his first film in five years, Charles Chaplin picked a new leading lady to share the Limelight:
1. Oona O'Neill.
2. Marilyn Monroe.
3. Claire Bloom.
4. Leslie Caron.
5. Shirley Booth.
66. Forbidden Games won critics' plaudits for the perceptive way:
1. Julie Harris plays an adolescent.
2. It looks at war through the eyes of a child.
3. Alec Guinness spoofs the "climber."
4. It satirizes TV giveaway shows.
5. It captures the stress of supersonic flight.
67. Maurice Evans plays a dinner-jacketed villain in Broadway's thriller:
1. The Deep Blue Sea.
2. The Seven Year Itch.
3. John Brown's Body.
4. Dial "M" for Murder.
5. The Children's Hour.
68. Paintings by Hasan Kaptan created a stir among Manhattan critics. The artist:
1. Is a ten-year-old Turk.
2. Was Hitler's favorite painter.
3. Is the dictator of Syria.
4. Painted them with his toes.
5. Is blind. 69.
69. When art experts X-rayed da Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, they found:
1. Two earlier versions beneath.
2. Plans for Pompadour's "Petit Chateau."
3. It was the work of da Vinci.
4. A portrait of Napoleon's fiancee, Desiree.
5. Sketches for the 1541 Martin Luther Bible.
70. The Los Angeles Chamber Symphony Orchestra presented the world premiere of a Cantata conducted by its composer:
1. Igor Stravinsky.
2. Eugene Ormandy.
3. Leonard Bernstein.
4. Arturo Toscanini.
5. Aaron Copland.
71. On the 25th anniversary of his debut at Harlem's Cotton Club, jazz fans paid tribute to Negro bandleader:
1. Fats Waller.
2. Cab Galloway.
3. Duke Ellington.
4. Fletcher Henderson.
5. Albert Ammons.
72. The Metropolitan's Bing gave the season a bang by doing all but one of these:
1. Restyling Verdi's Force of Destiny.
2. Signing a new three-year contract.
3. Telecasting opera houses to movie houses.
4. Lining up Hollywood's Bing for Figaro.
5. Commissioning the Met's Boheme in English.
73. "Man, it wasn't that chick's fault. Because that chick tried," was the comment on his marriage break-up by:
1. Enrol Flynn.
2. Franchot Tone.
3. Johnnie Ray.
4. Mickey Rooney.
5. Billy Eckstine.
Radio & Television
74. At Denver's Colorado General Hospital, TV cameras let the general public in on:
1. An appendectomy.
2. Plastic surgery.
3. A Caesarean delivery.
4. The nurses' training program.
5. A tonsillectomy.
75. Playwright George S. Kaufman was publicly fired for saying over the air four days before Christmas, "Let's make this one program on which nobody sings:
1. White Christmas
2. Adeste Fideles."
3. Silent Night."
4. Happy Christmas, Little Friend."
5. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus."
SPELL IT OUT
The first letter of each correct answer below spells out a ten-letter word that has recently come into the news. You get one point for each answer and one for the meaning of the word.
76. Grayson Kirk succeeds Ike as president of this university.
77. TV program produced by the Ford Foundation.
78. Thanks to his wife, he is Air Marshal, Field Marshal and Admiral.
79. She had her real-life and her TV baby the same day. (First name.)
80. Appointed Assistant to the President.
81. British visitor to old friends Baruch, Eisenhower, Truman.
82. "My hindsight is sore," he commented on the issue of U.N. Communists.
83. Egypt's strongman.
84. Senator unanimously elected majority leader.
85. Ship on which Ike held top-level conferences in the Pacific.
86. The word spelled out is:
1. The Russian plan for industrializing satellites.
2. A "missing link" fish zoologists had thought extinct.
3. Himalayan mountain, subject of a new book.
4. Popular Japanese pinball game.
5. Salvador Dali's painting of his wife.
Science & Medicine
87. "Hifi" addicts were enthused over binaural sound, which gives something like the same effect to the ear that the eye gets from:
1. Color TV.
2. A telescope.
3. The stereoscope.
4. Blinders.
5. Polaroid glasses.
88. An ex-G.I. in Denmark got a volley of publicity when the press latched on to a letter telling the folks:
1. He had married his housekeeper.
2. He had become a woman.
3. Copenhagen was ruled by Communists.
4. He was Hamlet reincarnated.
5. He had established a fund for hermaphrodites.
89. RCA demonstrated new applications for the germanium transistor, which can be used in place of:
1. Vinylite.
2. Vacuum tubes.
3. Dramamine.
4. 45 r.p.m. transformers.
5. The coaxial cable.
90. Rodney Dee and Roger Lee Brodie became the year's most famous twins. Reason:
1. They talked at three months.
2. They discovered a new polio vaccine.
3. A delicate operation severed their joined skulls.
4. They were the first infants to survive frontal lobotomy.
5. They were revived by the mechanical heart.
91. The tenth anniversary of the first chain reaction in an atomic pile was celebrated at:
1. The Brookhaven Laboratory.
2. Los Alamos.
3. The University of Chicago.
4. Bikini.
5. M.I.T.
92. Newest wrinkle in aircraft carriers, designed to prevent landing planes from crashing into others parked on the deck, is:
1. The angled deck.
2. An elastic wall.
3. Smaller pilots.
4. The feathered prop.
5. A radar barrier.
Press
93. Manhattan's left-wing Daily Compass, lineal descendant of PM:
1. Doubled its circulation.
2. Supported Eisenhower.
3. Went out of business.
4. Was closed by the police.
5. Was struck by newsdealers.
94. And two right-wing magazines were having their troubles:
1. The American Mercury and the Freeman.
2. Harper's and The Atlantic.
3. The New Yorker and The Reporter.
4. Punch and Judy.
5. Harper's and Scribner's
95. The American Newspaper Publishers Association filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to end "bogus":
1. Taxing newspapers by circulation.
2. Duplicate type, set when mats are used.
3. Restricting use of newsboys.
4. "Stealing" space by publicity men.
5. Radio stations which get their flashes from newspapers.
Religion and Education
96. "I never once saw a pin-up picture. But I saw hundreds of Bibles," was the comment of this religious leader who, like Cardinal Spellman, spent Christmas in Korea:
1. Billy Graham.
2. Henry Sloane Coffin.
3. Fulton J. Sheen.
4. Ralph Sockman.
5. Frank Buchman.
97. Harvard announced that Dr. James B. Conant would become president emeritus during his leave to:
1. Serve as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.
2. Head a special H-bomb committee.
3. Be Ambassador to France.
4. Take it easy in the Virgin Islands.
5. Work on psychological warfare.
98. Last month red hats were awarded to 24 new cardinals-- including one American, ex-Wall Streeter:
1. Joseph Stritch.
2. Richard J. Gushing.
3. John Francis O'Hara.
4. Joseph E. Ritter.
5. James Francis Mclntyre.
Sports
99. After trouncing U.S. Davis Cuppers Seixas and Trabert, Australia's Sedgman and McGregor:
1. Lost to the French team.
2. Swept through to victory over Britain.
3. Retired from tennis.
4. Applied for U.S. citizenship.
5. Turned professional.
100. The ring lost one of its greatest fighting machines when Sugar Ray Robinson quit to become a:
1. Stock broker.
2. Tap dancer.
3. Congressman.
4. Violinist.
5. Cop.
101. He ended the longest playing career in the National Football League, begun 16 years ago with the remark "Mah feet hurt":
1. Sammy Baugh.
2. Davy O'Brien.
3. Norman Van Brocklin.
4. Pat Harder.
5. Otto Graham.
102. Most football coaches were delighted when the N.C.A.A. ended an era by abolishing:
1. Subsidization of players.
2. Post-season games.
3. The free substitution rule.
4. The flying tackle.
5. White footballs.
WHO WON WHAT
103. A 46-year-old record fell when Tony DeSpirito:
1. Pole-vaulted 16 feet 2 inches.
2. Ran the mile in 4 minutes, 2.1 seconds.
3. Sat on top of a pole for 39 days.
4. Scored three touchdowns in the Rose Bowl.
5. Rode more horses to victory than any jockey in a single year.
104. The 1952 Nobel Prize in medicine was granted to Microbiologist Selman Waksman for his discovery of:
1. Streptomycin.
2. Penicillin.
3. Chlorophyll.
4. Aureomycin.
5. ACTH.
105. The Greatest Show on Earth was top money-maker--but Manhattan critics picked as best film of 1952:
1. Come Back, Little Sheba.
2. Hans Christian Andersen.
3. High Noon.
4. Breaking The Sound Barrier.
5. The Quiet Man.
JUST FOR FUN
Three of the recent TIME cover personalities shown here are identified by the three groups of statements below. No score for this section, but just for fun, see if you can write in the correct name on the first clue. If not, read the second clue. And don't feel too bad if you have to go on to the third.
1.
A. The second of five children, his father said of him: "He'll be a burden all his life."
B. His teaching at the University of Chicago was an experience that neither he nor Chicago was ever to forget.
C. Three-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author.
2.
A. At ten he announced to his father, "I was made not to obey, but to command."
B. Lonely and shaken by his wife's illness, he was grateful when the people of his town invited him to be mayor.
C. He brought France its first right-of-center government since the war.
3.
A. Bright, but no student, she was relieved when she could turn to the real business of her young life-ruling her string of beaux.
B. She has never attempted to play the grande dame--though she has had Clement Attlee for her dinner partner, lunched with Queen Juliana met King Haakon in Oslo.
C. She is fondly expected to touch off a social renaissance and lend a new warmth to the affairs of the presidency.
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