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00:00General Mills, home of Betty Crocker, presents Giant Step.
00:21And now here's your host for General Mills, the star of Giant Step, Bert Parks.
00:30Thank you very much. Good evening and welcome to Giant Step.
00:36Tonight, an 11-year-old boy will try to take his eighth and final Giant Step.
00:42His subject? Presidents of the United States.
00:45If he answers correctly, he'll win our top prize. And that prize is...
00:50The dream of every boy and girl in America to guarantee his future, a four-year scholarship to any college of his choice,
00:57plus, on graduation, to round out his education, an additional travel scholarship to foreign lands like France, Italy, England, and Japan.
01:09All right, Mike Fitzmaurice, who is our first contestant to take a giant step into the future?
01:15Nominated by the assistant packmaster of Cub Pack 51 and returning for his seventh Giant Step is 9-year-old Kenneth Sweetman of Bethel, Connecticut.
01:24How do you like that little ride up and down?
01:32Fine.
01:33Have you been up all the way yet?
01:35No.
01:36You want to try it?
01:37Uh-huh.
01:38Going up.
01:41Isn't that fun?
01:42Yeah.
01:43Kenny, I'm glad to see you back. What little surprises have you got up your sleeve for me this time, huh?
01:48I don't know. If I knew, they wouldn't be surprises.
01:53Yeah, that's right. I remember that insect story you told last week. That was very good. You got any more of those?
01:59No, not right offhand.
02:00I got one for you. It's a little riddle. You ready for it?
02:04Okay.
02:05I wrote a little note down what it is. Now, here it is. What insect has a hundred legs, but it doesn't make a sound?
02:13You've got me.
02:15A centipede with sneakers.
02:22I don't want you to laugh and fall off that platform, you know. Didn't you like that?
02:28No. If you're interested, a centipede isn't an insect.
02:35What is a centipede?
02:36A myropod.
02:39All right, then. There was this myropod that had a...
02:43Now, Ken, let's see. I don't think you and I better tell each other jokes. What do you think?
02:48Now, Kenny, last week you answered your sixth question, right? And you won for yourself a boat and a motor. Wasn't that exciting?
02:56And, Kenny, in a moment, you're going to take your seventh giant step on your way to the college scholarship.
03:01But first, I would like to say a word on another subject, and the subject is home.
03:07In a warm and wonderful moment at home, when somebody says...
03:11Wow! Look at that cake! Oh, that looks scrumptious!
03:16Mom, you've done it again.
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04:02You don't have to do the cooking. You just add water, stir, and spread on your cake.
04:08It's fail-proof and it's lickin' good. As Betty Crocker says...
04:12I guarantee a perfect cake and perfect frosting, too. Cake after cake after cake.
04:19How about a Betty Crocker clock cake to get your family to the table on time tomorrow?
04:28Okay? All right, back to our friend Ken Sweetman here.
04:33Now, let's see. The prizes you've won so far have been pretty nice, and your seventh question is again on etymology. Okay?
04:40Okay.
04:41Now, Kenny, up there in Connecticut where you live, not so easy to find insects, is it?
04:47No, they're usually all hibernated or died.
04:51It'd be better if you were searching for insects to go to some tropical climate in warm weather?
04:57Yes, you can find insects over there all the time.
05:00They have beautiful butterflies down there. They sure grow beautiful, especially in Mexico.
05:05Down in Mexico they have beautiful butterflies?
05:08Yep.
05:09Gee, I'm glad to hear that.
05:10Well, Kenny, you better hold tight, because your next prize will be...
05:13For you and your mother and dad, a week vacation, all expenses paid in Acapulco, Mexico.
05:19How about that? Isn't that wonderful?
05:21Oh, my golly.
05:22Oh, my golly.
05:23Now, Ken, we're going to get down to your questioning, and we want to remind you again about how we go with it.
05:30Your seventh question has two parts. Answer either part, and the prize is yours.
05:35Answer both parts, and you take a giant step as well.
05:39You ready? All right, take a deep breath.
05:47Now you see, of course you do, that drawing over to your right.
05:51That's the drawing of an insect.
05:53Oh, gosh, what a messy-looking thing. It doesn't look much like anything to me.
05:57Looks fine to me. I don't know.
05:59Well, anyway, here is part one of your question.
06:02I want you to locate on this drawing the following anatomical parts.
06:07The cuticle, the flagellum, and the thorax.
06:12Then in part two, I'll give you the scientific Latin names of three insects.
06:17You tell me what their common names are.
06:20The three Latin names are musca domestica, periplaneta americana, and adelia bipunctata.
06:31Did I pronounce those correctly?
06:33I think so.
06:35All right, let me repeat now.
06:37First part of your question was to locate on that drawing the following anatomical parts.
06:42The cuticle, the flagellum, and the thorax.
06:45Then I'll give you the scientific Latin names of three insects.
06:49You tell me what their common names are.
06:51They are musca domestica, periplaneta americana, and the adelia bipunctata.
06:59All right, now take some time to think that over.
07:15All right, time is up.
07:31Now, Kenny, get a hold of this drawing, if you will.
07:34Let's take the question part by part.
07:36First, I want you to locate the cuticle.
07:39Where is the cuticle?
07:41That's all the skin.
07:43That is correct.
07:44The next thing is the flagellum.
07:47Those are the antennae.
07:48Exactly right.
07:50And the thorax.
07:52That's right there.
07:53Exactly right, Kenny.
07:55Now, answer part two of your question to take that giant step.
08:00Part two was we gave you the Latin names of three insects.
08:03Tell me what their common names are.
08:05First, musca domestica.
08:08What do you think that is?
08:10Fly.
08:11The housefly.
08:12All right, the next one is periplaneta americana.
08:17Well, it's an American something.
08:20Yes, but would you like to come back to that?
08:23Should we go to the next one and come back, Kenny?
08:25All right, the next one is called the adelia bipunctata.
08:30The adelia bipunctata.
08:35Do you know what that is, Ken?
08:37I don't think so.
08:40Would you like to venture a guess?
08:42We want to give you as much opportunity and chance as you can.
08:45What do you think it sounds like to you?
08:47The adelia bipunctata.
08:50Adelia.
08:51Adelia bipunctata.
08:53No idea?
08:54Could it be a butterfly of some kind?
08:56No, I'm sorry, Kenny.
08:58It happens to be a ladybug.
09:01And the periplaneta americana is the cockroach.
09:06But you've answered that one part, and so that vacation to Mexico is yours.
09:11You didn't answer both parts, so I'm afraid you can't take the giant step.
09:15But, Kenny, you got some wonderful prizes, and I want to tell you something, son.
09:18I'm going to miss you.
09:21I'm sorry I couldn't get that question.
09:24Well, I'm sorry, but I think we'll be friends anyway, don't you?
09:27Will you send me a card from Mexico when you get down there?
09:30Thank you, and good luck to you.
09:32Oh, let's go down here.
09:33There we are.
09:34Kenny Sweetman, thank you, and good luck.
09:38Thank you very much.
09:40Oh, that's a wonderful boy.
09:41All right, Mike Fitzmyers, who is next to take a giant step into the future?
09:46Nominated by his guardian and returning for his eighth and final giant step is 11-year-old Joseph Kicklighter of Hawkinsville, Georgia.
09:59And we'll take that little ride up in the air.
10:02Well, Joseph, I'm very happy to welcome you back.
10:05Joseph, as you know, is from Hawkinsville, Georgia.
10:09And, Joe, this is a very important moment.
10:11You're about to take your eighth giant step on Presidents of the United States, a step that means a great deal to your future.
10:17You know, of course, what our top prize is.
10:20It's a college education and a scholarship.
10:24That's right.
10:25And it's a foreign tour.
10:27Have you decided what college you'd like to go to already?
10:30Well, sir, I'd like to go to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
10:34Well, I sure wish you luck.
10:35How about those countries?
10:36Have you thought about what countries you'd like to visit, Joe?
10:39Well, I hadn't put too much thought in it, but if I could go, I'd like to go to Germany.
10:45Fine.
10:46But, Joe, I want to tell you I'm pulling for you.
10:48And I'm sure that everybody who is watching us and the folks here in the studio audience are pulling for you, too.
10:54So good luck to you.
10:56All right.
10:58You know what?
11:01You know what I always say to you?
11:03Take a deep breath.
11:11Now, Presidents of the United States.
11:14First, Presidents of the United States, while in office, have belonged to only five political parties.
11:22Name all five parties.
11:25Then, I will give you five Presidents.
11:29You tell me the party of each, a man that each defeated for President, and the party of the defeated rival.
11:39The Presidents are Zachary Taylor, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas Jefferson, and William Henry Harrison.
11:49And then, finally, Joseph, to what party did our only Bachelor President belong?
11:57Now, let me repeat again.
11:59Presidents of the United States have belonged to only five political parties.
12:03Name all five parties.
12:05I'll give you five Presidents.
12:07I want you to tell me the party of each, a man each defeated for President, the party of the defeated rival.
12:13The Presidents are Zachary Taylor, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas Jefferson, and William Henry Harrison.
12:20And finally, to what party did our only Bachelor President belong?
12:26Now, this is for the scholarship and the foreign tour.
12:29So, Joy, take some time.
12:43♪♪
13:00Time is up.
13:01All right, Joy, here we go.
13:02We'll take it part by part, and we'll answer them as we go.
13:06Now, Presidents of the United States in office have belonged to only five political parties.
13:12Name all five parties, please.
13:15Well, the first party to elect a President was the Federalist Party.
13:20Yes, sir.
13:21And the next was the Democratic-Republican Party.
13:24That is correct, Joseph.
13:25The next party was the Whig Party.
13:27Yes, sir.
13:28The next was the Democratic Party.
13:30Right.
13:31And the next was the Republican Party.
13:32You have that part exactly right.
13:35Now, this is part number two we're getting to.
13:40I'll give you five Presidents.
13:42You tell me the party of each.
13:45A man each defeated for President.
13:47All right, let's start with the first one.
13:49Zachary Taylor, of what political party?
13:52He was a Whig.
13:54That is right.
13:55And tell me the name of one of the men or the man he defeated for President.
13:59He defeated Louis Cass.
14:01And his political party?
14:03He was a Democrat.
14:04That is right, Joseph.
14:06The next one is Andrew Jackson.
14:08What political party?
14:10He was a Democrat.
14:11Name one of the men he defeated for President.
14:15He defeated Henry Clay.
14:17And what party affiliation was Henry Clay?
14:21I think, if I'm not mistaken, he's a Whig, I believe.
14:25He's a National Republican.
14:29That's right.
14:31That's better.
14:34Now, take your time now.
14:37Everybody's rushing you.
14:38And if you don't believe that you know this, think about it and think about it again.
14:42The next one is Rutherford B. Hayes.
14:44What party?
14:46He was a Republican.
14:47Right.
14:48Name one of the candidates he defeated for President.
14:52He defeated Samuel J. Tilden.
14:54Who was of what political party?
14:56He was a Democrat.
14:57You are right, Joseph.
14:59Now, we have two more to go for the college scholarship and the foreign tour.
15:04Now, Thomas Jefferson.
15:07What political party?
15:08He was a Democratic Republican.
15:10Exactly.
15:12Name the man that he, the man or one of the men that he defeated for the presidency.
15:19He defeated Aaron Burr, a Democratic Republican.
15:22And he also, in the first election he ran, he defeated also his own president that he served under.
15:29He was vice president under John Adams and he defeated John Adams himself, a Federalist.
15:34You could, I mean, either one of those, Aaron Burr, a Democratic Republican.
15:38You were right a long time ago, yeah.
15:43We have one more.
15:44Now, Joe, take your time.
15:46Just one more.
15:47William Henry Harrison.
15:49Of what political party?
15:51He was a Whig.
15:52He was a Whig.
15:54What man did he defeat for the presidency?
15:57He defeated President Martin Van Buren.
15:59And what party was Martin Van Buren?
16:02He was a Democrat.
16:04Now, this will tie it up.
16:06To what party, our only bachelor president, to what party did he belong?
16:13It was President James Buchanan of the Democratic Party.
16:16You're right, Joseph!
16:19Congratulations to you, Joey.
16:29And I can't tell you how happy we are for you because you've won that college scholarship and you've won the foreign tour.
16:38Gee, I'd like to go along with you.
16:40Where are you going?
16:41To Germany and all those other places?
16:42Now, look, let's take your career.
16:44Now, you say that you want to go to Harvard College, is that right?
16:47Oh, yes, sir.
16:48Now, and you have also, I think, at the beginning of when you were here, you mapped out your whole career for us.
16:53What are you going to do?
16:54You were starting at Harvard Law School.
16:55Then what were you going to do?
16:57Well, sir, after I graduate from Harvard Law School, I want to go to New York and start out in politics.
17:03In politics, yes.
17:04I want to try for the state senate and then I want to run for mayor of New York City or Buffalo.
17:12I understand.
17:13And then governor of New York.
17:15After governor of New York.
17:17I'm sure he's gotten it already.
17:19And what after that then, Joseph?
17:21I'm going to the Democratic Convention and try for the nomination of President.
17:24You're going to the Democratic Convention and try for the nomination of President.
17:33If I was a betting man, I'd say he'll do it, too.
17:36You won that Esther Williams swimming pool, I believe it was last week.
17:40Have you thought of charging admission?
17:42Well, it might be a good idea.
17:44It might.
17:45How much would you charge?
17:47Well, I don't know.
17:48Maybe 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children.
17:52And since you're a Democrat, are you going to charge more for the Republicans?
17:56Well, I'd raise a little bit for them.
17:58Yeah, I know.
18:00Well, Joey, I want to tell you from all of us, from General Mills here on Giant Step,
18:04congratulations to you and may the future hold nothing but good for you.
18:08Joseph Kicklighter.
18:10Good night.
18:14Good night.
18:19I hate to see him go.
18:21Well, now, friends, in just a moment, we'll meet our next nominee,
18:24a charming young miss who takes the stars in her stride.
18:27But first, you know Christmas will be here before we know it.
18:32Half the fun is in the preparations,
18:34which is just what Sally and Betty Crocker are doing right now.
18:38Hello there.
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18:42I'll say.
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19:38Oh, all of us, Sally.
19:40Thank you very much, Betty Crocker and Sally.
19:43That certainly is a very interesting idea.
19:50All right, now, Mike Fitzmaurice, who is our next nominee to take a giant step into the future?
19:56Nominated by her father and returning for her sixth giant step
19:59is our 11-year-old astronomy expert, Stephanie Maris of Jamaica, New York.
20:05All right, now, here we have Stephanie Maris,
20:10and I'm glad to see you, Steffi, and kind of cold out tonight, isn't it?
20:15Oh, yes.
20:16Now, your category is astronomy.
20:18How would you like to be the famous Galileo?
20:21Wasn't he a famous astronomer?
20:23Yes, he was, but I don't think I'd like to be Galileo.
20:26You would not?
20:27No.
20:28Why not?
20:29He's dead.
20:30Yeah, well, I know.
20:32Well, maybe some live astronomer because you're so interested in it.
20:36Now, we're going to get right down to your category here,
20:38but last week, let's see, you took your fifth giant step
20:41on your way to the college scholarship and the foreign tour,
20:44and tonight you're ready for your sixth giant step.
20:47Say, I've got to ask you, though, Steffi, how are the plans for the new house coming?
20:51Is everything coming along pretty good?
20:52Is it all furnished and everything like that?
20:55Well, I don't know, but I was thinking about a colonial room.
21:00You mean the old-fashioned type with one of those four-poster beds in it?
21:03Oh, yes, and a canopy.
21:04Oh, you'd look awful cute in that.
21:06Well, now, I tell you what, you take a good look, Steff,
21:09because you answer this next question, and your prize will be...
21:12For your new bedroom, a set of colonial furniture, including a canopy bed.
21:16You see, on giant step, all you have to do is make a wish and keep your fingers crossed.
21:20Okay, here we go with your sixth question on astronomy.
21:23Are you ready?
21:24Take a deep breath.
21:26♪
21:31Now, Steff, we're setting in place now two sections of a night sky.
21:38Now, each of them contains a constellation of stars.
21:42Now, here is the first one, which is marked A.
21:46See that?
21:47Okay, and the other one is marked B.
21:50Okay, now, part one of your question is
21:53to tell me the name of the constellation it contains in this one here,
21:59connect the stars which form that constellation,
22:03then draw a circle around the star called Thuban.
22:07Now, let's look at the second section, the one marked B over here.
22:12Tell me the name of the constellation that it contains,
22:15connect the stars which form it,
22:18then encircle the star called Kastor.
22:22Now, I'm going to repeat the question.
22:24The name of the constellation in A, connect the stars which form it,
22:29draw a circle around the star called Thuban.
22:32In B, the name of the constellation it contains,
22:36connect the stars which form it,
22:39then encircle the star called Kastor.
22:42Okay?
22:43All right, now take some time to think that over.
22:46♪♪♪
23:12All right, now, Steffi, honey, stand down here,
23:15just about here for a moment.
23:16I'm going to give you a piece of chalk which you'll have to use later on.
23:19First of all, I want you to tell me in part one
23:22the name of the constellation that this A card contains.
23:26It contains the constellation Draco.
23:29Draco or the Dragon.
23:30Dragon.
23:31Is that right?
23:32Now, I want you to connect the stars which form that constellation.
23:36Okay?
23:37Do that first, please.
23:42♪♪♪
24:06You want to step back and look at it a little better?
24:09Huh?
24:11All right, try it again now, Steffi.
24:19It seems the two stars are missing.
24:21Two stars are missing?
24:23Well, I tell you, let's get back to this.
24:25Would you mark a circle around the star called Thuban?
24:29Mark a circle around the star called Thuban, T-H-U-B-A-N.
24:34Will you put a circle around it?
24:37Um...
24:42Which one?
24:43I mean, um...
24:44Which one?
24:47Would you like to go to the next one?
24:49Let's try the next one, all right?
24:50Tell me the name of the constellation that's contained in B there.
24:53Do you know?
24:54What was the star?
24:55The name of the constellation contained, yes?
24:57Gemini.
24:58Gemini is right, all right?
24:59Now, can you draw in the constellation first?
25:02Draw in the constellation Gemini.
25:04Or the twins, as it's known.
25:06Okay.
25:26Do you know it, honey?
25:27Yeah.
25:28Steffi, I'm very sorry.
25:29Come back up here, sweetie.
25:32But I want to tell you that all the prizes
25:34that you have won up to now are yours
25:37with our very best wishes and with our love.
25:40You know, it's not an easy thing to lose,
25:43but I want you to know that it's been a great pleasure
25:45to have you with us on the show.
25:47I hope you enjoy all the prizes,
25:48and will you come back to see us again?
25:50Thank you very much, Steffi, and good night.
25:54Now, before we continue,
25:57Betty Crocker has a little story for us.
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27:07All right, who is next
27:08to take a giant step into the kitchen?
27:10I'm terribly sorry, Bert,
27:11but time's up for tonight.
27:13Oh, I'm awfully sorry,
27:14but ladies and gentlemen,
27:16the half hour, I'm afraid,
27:17is much too short.
27:18But be with us again next week
27:20when we'll have some more
27:23wonderful, charming,
27:24and talented children here
27:26on the Giant Step.
27:28Thank you very much.
27:29Good night.
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