Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wherever Kennedy went last week, he drew enthusiastic crowds. Nearly 1,000 turned out for a Milwaukee dinner; 400 showed up in Sheboygan; one man drove 100 miles to hear Kennedy speak in Madison. The tousle-headed Senator punched hard and earnestly. He pushed his Kennedy-Ervin labor bill ("We will find out in the Senate who is anti-racketeering and who is merely anti-labor-who wants a law this year and who wants a campaign issue for next year"). He proposed a Kennedy refinement of the Brannan farm plan. He hammered the Administration for "no new ideas...
...draw everyone anticipated. Though officials had expected at least 1,000,000 people to jam the streets, only about half that number showed up; modern Japan preferred to watch the proceedings on television. Back in 1924, the Emperor's wedding had cost $1,500,000; the bill for Akihito's, with all banquets and receptions included, will come to only $140,000. The crowds waved and cheered, but not with the same frenzied banzais that once greeted the heir to the Emperor...
...With lanky (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell mopping up the backboards, the Boston Celtics crushed the Minneapolis Lakers in four straight games to win the playoffs of the National Basketball Association, justify the claim of winning Coach Red Auerbach that they were "the greatest team in the history of the sport...
...varsity won the remaining singles with little trouble. Tim Gallwey beat Don Hubbard, 6-3, 6-2, Fred Vinton took Lee Sager, 6-1, 6-0, Jorge Lemann defeated Rush Yelverton, 6-2, 6-2, and Bill Wood blasted John Wood...
...doubles coach Jack Barnaby rested his first pair, Weld and Bowditch, and moved Lemann and Bill Wood--the new second team--up to number one. After a shaky start, they beat Fisher and O'Connell, 6-4, 6-1. Gallwey and Vinton, playing second, routed Sager and Bob Chelberg, 6-1, 6-0, and Pete Smith and Bob Schwartzman, at number three, completed the shutout with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Hubbard and Yelverton...