Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jitters on the Center Court. For all his pique, eighth-seeded Vic Seixas did better than many higher-seeded stars. Sweden's third-seeded Sven Davidson was knocked off by an Australian unknown named Ashley Cooper, 19. Fifth-seeded ex-Champion (1954) Jaroslav Drobny, 34, was whipped by India's Ramanathan Krishnan, 19, an agile giant with a weak serve and badly sprained ankle. Fourth-seeded Budge Patty, 32, fell to an up-and-coming Briton named Bobby Wilson...
...competition should be wide open, since last year's winner, Cal Place, and runner-up, Karl Purnell, are not at Summer School this year. Place was eighth man on the varsity this spring, and Purnell played in the number six spot for Jack Barnaby's team...
...with the magic of a lot of big names and not let the big names hang around to drive the viewers away) had an iridescent beauty of its own. He lined the names up and let them give him a 43-gun salute to celebrate his show's eighth anniversary on the air. Then the names disappeared and the show went...
...Appointments of the week: Novice G. Fawcett, 47, school superintendent of Columbus, Ohio, to succeed Howard Bevis as eighth president of Ohio State University. Eric Walker, 46, vice president of Pennsylvania State University, to succeed Milton S. Eisenhower as the university's twelfth president...
...Schmidt's judgment that the year's "readjustments are, for the most part, behind us." Construction seems likely to top the record $44 billion mark forecast earlier this year by the U.S. Government. Steel production in May soared over the 10 million-ton mark for the eighth straight month. While home building trailed last year's record level by 17% in 1956's first five months, largely because of the credit pinch, the Administration hinted last week that easier mortgage money is on the way. Auto dealers throughout the U.S. were paring inventories of unsold...