Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Rojas had a heartfelt reason for such an unaccustomed show of good will. In the past five months he has made a dizzying personal comeback. Last September his military regime was so shaky that Bogota rumors announced his downfall hourly. High armed-forces officers were quietly picking a junta to take over. Instead, Rojas got them to agree to an overhauling of his dictatorship that would restore its authority and acceptability. By last week he had succeeded...
...Wisconsin's retrogressive Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy hove out of political limbo on ABC's TV Press Conference to try a comeback by his usual method, namely, whittling others off at the temples to make himself look like a larger dwarf. On Joe's current "dangerous" list: White House Assistant Sherman Adams, U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Paul Hoffman ("a throwback on the human race"), Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold E. Stassen (a Stevensonite who "goes further" than Adlai), and the President's brother, Milton Eisenhower ("no more a Republican than ... a Hottentot"). Then McCarthy shot...
...less gas, trucks with 25% less, farmers with 10% less, and home owners with 25% less fuel oil. While Britain's industry uses less oil than most, oil-fueled steelmakers must cut production 10%, and the auto industry, which was already in trouble and hoped for a comeback, faces severe cutbacks. Cars slated for export are piling up on the docks because of the shipping shortage, and gas rationing at home has knocked the bottom out of the domestic market...
...Boring felt that TV lecturing is less effective than ordinary teaching, since the lecturer is deprived of audience reactions. "I have always felt that audience comeback aids a lecturer," Boring said. "It always helps to know whether your students are awake or asleep, whether they are scribbling notes furiously, or reading the newspaper. But I pretend that the three red lights on the TV camera are Johnny and Mama and Papa, and I try to deliver my lecture to them...
Chrysler Corp., pinning its comeback hopes on a radically new 1957 line (TIME, Oct. 29), last week issued an earnings report that showed just how far it must go. In the third quarter of 1956, Chrysler lost $12.3 million on sales of $429 million, down $152 million from the same period in 1955. All told for the first nine months, Chrysler saw its sales dip 24% to $1.8 billion, and its earnings plummet 91% to $6,272,352, or 72? a share v. $8.11 last year, partly because of the $300 million outlay for new models. Next year, said Chrysler...