Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first singles, Dale Junta relived the finals of last year's Intercollegiate Tennis Championships by defeating Carl Hirshman, runner-up to Junta in that event, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Junta duplicated his comeback performance against Steve Bank of North Carolina last Tuesday by rallying to win after dropping the first...
...Filters. As smokers switched, the phenomenal growth of filters sparked the industry's comeback. While sales of regular cigarettes have continued to drop since 1952, filters have risen from 1% of the market in 1952 to 30% last year, are heading for 40% in 1957. More than a dozen new filter brands have been put on the market in the past five years, and almost every one has moved up fast in the sales race. Reynolds' Winston, fifth-ranked in 1955, last year took over fourth place from Chesterfield. (Regular and king sizes are classified separately.) Liggett & Myers...
...strongman's Venezuelan command post is a comfortable apartment on the eighth floor of an apartment building in a Caracas residential neighborhood. Protected from unwanted visitors by Venezuelan Seguridad National guards in the lobby downstairs and on the street outside, Perón works on comeback plans twelve hours a day, openly confers with visiting plotters. In his off moments, he strolls through a nearby park or motors through the countryside with his roommates, a blonde actress named Isabelita Martinez, a black poodle named Canela, and a white poodle named Picha. A frequent guest is Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, Venezuelan...
...Quick Comeback. Founded in 1919 by a roughhewn, forceful Dutch flyer named Albert Plesman, KLM inaugurated the world's first scheduled airplane passenger service in 1920 by flying from London to Amsterdam in a chartered de Havilland 16. By World War II it had a fleet of 51 planes, served 61 cities in 29 countries. In a few days Nazi bombers almost completely wiped it out. At war's end KLM had only four planes in Europe, but Plesman (who died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable...
Both sales and store highlighted Ward's fast comeback under John Barr, 48, who took over the company after crusty old Chairman Sewell Avery surrendered his one-man rule two years ago (TIME, May 23, 1955). As boss. Barr's first move was to recruit a new force of officers; he gave them a stock option plan as incentive, equipped them with real, independent authority and then set to work on a new-look for the company. In quick succession, Barr formed a new department to pump life into merchandising and displays at Ward's 562 retail...