Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conspicuous Stage. The outlook was brighter, and the Western principals of the Middle East drama underscored Ike's deliberate low-pressure calmness by going about other duties. The U.N. General Assembly felt able to adjourn; Secretary of State Dulles felt able to take off for faraway Australia for a meeting of the SEATO Council; U.S. eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage...
Things look a bit brighter this year, with Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge in the dash, Landau and Joel Cohen in the hurdles, and Dick Wharton, Bill Morris, Jim Cairns, and French Anderson in the middle distances. John DuMoulin and Pete Harpel could pick up points in the weight. Phil Williams has the unbelievable task of meeting Ron Delany in the mile, while Pete Reider and Dave Norris will compete in a star-studded two-mile field...
...brighter side, the rapidly improving duo of Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge makes the Crimson solid favorites for big points in the dash, while Cohen figures to take the hurdles, with the hard-working Landau also picking up points...
...still have a slight advantage, even top private Eastern prep schools can no longer guarantee him a place in the college of his choice. Says Headmaster Hall: "It's kind of hard on the Yale alumnus who develops a kid as bright as his father but no brighter...
Some profit pictures were much brighter. Oil-industry earnings were pushed up by heavy demand arising from the Suez crisis. Sinclair's net shot up 13% to a record $91 million in 1956. Socony Mobil estimated earnings at $250 million, up from $208 million in 1955. Shell Oil hit $135.8 million, for an advance of $10.3 million...