Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event that Cook has to be replaced by Martin, Lockwood will move in to second base, and Dick Shima will take over in rightfield...
...first base will be Bert Messenbaugh, whose only hit of the year was a home run. Shortstop Bill Rodgers, third baseman Jerry Sullivan, and Martin will round out the starting infield...
...Base. During the debate over the interest rate, Bill Fulbright took off onto a new and unusual line of advocacy. Arguing for his 3% interest, he ticked off foreign nations that have fared as well or better with U.S. loans: "Afghanistan pays 3% on its mutual-security-program loan. Burma paid 2⅜ on an overseas surplus property loan. Nationalist China under the mutual-security program has been paying 3%." Cried he: "It is beyond my understanding why grants to that extent and loans for economic development in the amount of more than $41 million can be extended...
...perpetrated by their amateur replacements (TIME, April 21), voted at week's end to go back to work at cameras, mike booms, control panels. Some 1,300 members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers won an 8.8% pay hike in two step-ups (to a base wage of $190 a week next year), plus an assurance from CBS that video tape-the instant TV recording medium feared by the union as a major job threat-will be handled for the network only by I.B.E.W. men. After twelve days of audio leaks and video freaks...
...Malley agrees with the diagnosis. But rebuilding the team, he argues, was impossible so long as his base of operations was the stained and gloomy pile of masonry hard by Prospect Park. "Look at it this way," says he. "Brooklyn draws a million people. Milwaukee draws two and a quarter million. Results: 1) they can pay their players more; 2) they can absorb more farm club losses; 3) they can have more front-office talent; 4) they can buy more bonus players. The momentum is Milwaukee's. Obviously, we have deteriorated into a noncontending ball club. I decided that...