Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that has been proposed so far, including both the CBS and RCA systems; 2) receive ordinary black & white broadcasts; 3) switch itself automatically from one system to another. The tube's inventor: Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, who built the first model in his Berkeley (Calif.) workshop...
...Davis Cupper Ted Schroeder, 30, the Pacific Coast tennis championship; in Berkeley, Calif. Schroeder, still showing some of the slashing form that has won him six of eight Davis Cup matches, whipped Philadelphia's Vic Seixas, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, in the final. U.S. Davis Cup hopes received an expected blow when 20-year-old Tony Trabert, national clay court champion, was forced to default a doubles match and report for duty with the Navy. ¶The University of Texas football team, eleventh in the pre-season rankings, over seventh-ranked Kentucky, 7-6; in Austin. Other...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...Sheilas Reward, by a length; in New York. ¶ David Stanley of Los Angeles, the national public links golf championship, over Ralph Vranesic of Denver, 1 up on the 38th hole; in Milwaukee. ¶Stella Walsh, 40, her own national pentathlon title, with a record 1,932 points; in Berkeley, Calif...
...years ago, a gangling ball boy named Dick Savitt thought he was wasting his time fooling around on the courts of the Berkeley Tennis Club in Orange, NJ. He really wanted to be a big-league baseball player. Somehow it never worked out that way. Last week, some 3,000 miles from Yankee Stadium, Dick Savitt was still sidetracked from baseball, still up to his ears in tennis, but scarcely wasting his time. He was busy on the famed center court at Wimbledon, playing in the final round of the All-England championship...