Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John McIntosh, Larry Ekpebu, and Kay Khan will man the wings, and judging by early season practice and performance, this should be one of the varsity's strongest points. All three men are fast, have good shots, and have shown the ability to outwit and outrun opposing backs...
...comfortable income as a society bridge teacher, is perhaps the slowest player in top-level bridge, infuriates opponents with long spells of fierce, immobile concentration. Suave, dapper New Yorker Crawford, 43, Main Line Philadelphian by origin (he claims to be the only bridge master in the Social Register), is fast and impatient, deliberately tries to confuse opponents by creating an impression of wildness while actually playing with hard logic. He has a habit of staring at opponents with what an old acquaintance calls "the coldest eyes in bridge." Captain of the U.S. team that lost the world championship match...
Prospects seem dim for any fast improvement in many key industries. Railroad employment plunged from 985,000 last year to 626,000 last May, and there has been virtually no rehiring. In nonelectrical heavy machinery, employment dropped from 1,738,000 last year to 1,486,000 last May, slid still farther in August. Chemical-industry employment dipped from last year's 845,000 to last May's 817,000 to August's 812,800. In steel, the United Steel Workers reported that the number laid off has risen from 212,000 in February...
High Return. Accepting the challenge, young (41) Detroit Builder Herbert S. Greenwald and famed German-born Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe turned out a design that won architects' praise, bank loans, FHA mortgage guarantees. As fast as they complete one building unit, they pay the city an average of $125,000 for the land. The city then buys more slum land for urban renewal. Not only merchants will profit from the redevelopment; city real-estate tax collections from the area will jump...
...begins the first of his vagabond journeys, part flight, part search, that never lead him to a permanent dwelling place, never free him completely from a grim, autocratic mother. Claude is small and soft-bodied, physically still a child but already, thanks to an understanding teacher, a fast-maturing poet. He stows away on a train to Paris. Drunk with wonder, he prowls this incandescent city, perches on curbstones to scribble his poems. He sleeps on pavements and swipes food from the markets. Caught and jailed, he is raped in his cell by a vagrant pederast. In shock and shame...