Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream. But the festival was dogged by bad luck and bad weather, last summer had to close up shop in midseason. This summer, operating from a new site, it has come back stronger than ever. Last week, with the first Eastern performance of Handel's Semele and a performance of Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral (TIME, March 17, 1958), it had the look and the ebullient sound of the healthiest summer festival in the land...
...monsoon rains swept across India, dousing the furnace heat of early summer, 35 million young Indians jammed back into the nation's schools for another year, nearly a million of them under the academic umbrellas of India's-38 huge, state-supported universities. And louder than ever rose the cries of frustration from thousands of rejected university applicants and their anxious parents...
...Willie McCovey from Phoenix, Ariz. The new Negro first baseman scored three runs and drove in two in his first game, knocked across the winning score in his second, went 3-for-5 in his third, as the Giants won all three games and slipped back into first place in the tight National League pennant race...
...horn-handed engineer who has a word of Art Shay advice for every faltering firm: "You must compete in areas where you are prepared to compete." With this credo, Harold Eugene Churchill, 56, climbed to the presidency of Studebaker-Packard Corp. and led the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. Unlike other auto chief executives, Churchill does not compete as a supersalesman or financial whiz. He came up as an oldtime, dirty-fingernail mechanic, who still loves to tinker under an open hood. Realizing that S.P. could not battle model-for-model against the Big Three...
...Thomas shared the captain's relief. When he took over as president and chief executive officer of TWA just a year ago, the line was flying low and slow; it had operated without a president for six months, had lost close to $12 million. Last week TWA was back to cruising altitude, thanks not only to Thomas but to the astonishing success of its jets and the upsurge in all air traffic...