Word: centered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson squeezed out two runs from one hit and one base on balls, to break a scoreless tie in the fourth inning. Al Martin drew the walk as leadoff batter and was sacrificed to second by John Davis. Chet Boulris laced a single to center, advancing Martin to third. Boulris then stole second and a moment later followed Martin across the plate when Charlie Ravenel grounded...
...extinction unless its employees joined the Teamsters. Oregon's Wayne Morse, grey-black eyebrows beetling over angry grey eyes, retorted acidly that a blow against peaceful picketing was a blow against "the cardinal principle of freedom of speech." Kennedy himself, now back in command, came striding down the center aisle to the Senate's well to argue against the amendment's sweeping nature. "I myself would be forced to vote against the bill," he said, "and ask that my name be stricken from it, if this amendment were adopted." McClellan's amendment lost 59-30. Wisely...
...Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming suburbs, Alcoa let $40 million worth of contracts to expand its aluminum plant. Over the South's best highway net, semitrailers snorted...
...theory that one out of every ten adult male Americans is a conductor at heart, if not in mind and basic education, Victor has issued 35,000 of the albums, happily expects to get demands for more. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, Victor is building a podium before a wall-sized photograph of the Boston Symphony, plans to invite passers-by in to conduct behind closed doors. Actually, home conducting may be a healthy thing, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Edmund Bergler: it provides the amateur with sublimating relief from the gnawing "infantile megalomania" that afflicts every...
Died. Howard Wilcox Haggard, 67, longtime (1938-56) director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale...