Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson seemed passive. On the record, no slouch could have risen so fast from a poor cotton farm, worked his way through University of Texas Law School at top of his class, become a young expert in the state government's toughest troubleshooting jobs, and managed a $300 million cattle and oil empire. But Anderson's Washington reputation came mainly from his Navy Secretary days (1953-54), when he was known as a flexible, laconic worker who stayed out of headlines and was more willing to listen to others than to voice his own ideas. Now the news...
...Barnes in the 220 got off to a fast start in his preliminary heat, but the distance proved too much for him, and he too faded badly at the end, finishing out of the qualifying bracket...
...League cellar, the demoralized Detroit Tigers still managed to collect a league record. Lumbering Outfielder Gus Zernial stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the last of the eighth inning in a game with the Yankees, sighted in on one of Relief Pitcher Ryne Duren's fast balls and belted it into the stands for a home run. It was not enough to win the game (Yanks 5, Tigers 4), but it was Zernial's eighth pinch-hit homer, one more than the previous league mark he had shared with Boston's Ted Williams...
...Excommunicated, they set up their own church organization to keep track of births and deaths. They married only within their small fold, lived in isolated farm colonies where they produced their own food, clothing and shelter. Their descendants still scorn doctors, and live robustly to old age; they faithfully fast every Wednesday and Friday, shun tobacco, alcohol, coffee...
...keep prices from spiraling too fast, a handful of the economists argued for an agency, such as a permanent Wage and Price Commission, which would gather accurate statistics, compute the effects of wage-price increases, and formulate standards for government policy. Economists such as the University of Chicago's Albert E. Rees would also like to see the Government itself put an end to price-boosting devices, e.g., farm price supports, tariffs and import quotas that shelter inefficient domestic producers. Said he: "If the Government is to condemn private enterprise for using rigid prices, it should itself cease being...