Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infield of Tom Bergantino, Bob Hastings, Bob Cleary, and Babe Simourian has been very steady and comes up with more double plays than one expects to see in college baseball. The fast outfield of John Getch, Walt Stahura, and Matt Botsford has also been quite dependable, though perhaps better on throwing than catching...
Crawford's two-movement Trio for Clarinet, 'Cello and Piano was the most distinguished in content. The fast, dry style of the first movement was appropriate for the constantly intriguing rhythms. But fewer internal stops would have improved the result. The second movement got off to a fine start, then wandered with little purpose, but came to a haunting close whose effectiveness a third movement would have impaired. A major virtue of the piece was the restraint of the piano writing. The piano was an equal participant in the proceedings, and not, as in many such works, an overpowering mass...
...spectators waited while it climbed into space, and while it turned down and fired its final stages. The last stage is small, certainly not big enough to be seen at that distance under ordinary circumstances, but when the X-17 struck through the cloud deck, it was moving so fast that it had become a man-made meteor, brilliantly visible 80 miles away. Most of its plunging metal must have vaporized...
Sales & Bonanzas. Some of the profit increases were sensational enough to please even the zoomers. In the auto industry, fast-moving Chrysler Corp. reported a 327% profit rise on record sales, to $5.34 a share-the highest in its history. Ford Motor Co. also had record sales, reported quarterly earnings of $1.85 a share, a 36% rise over last year. General Motors profit was down, but the drop was moderate (93? v. 1956's $1.01), considering the company's 9.4% drop in sales of cars and trucks in the first quarter...
...Superman. At Bull Run, when he stood fast against the surging Union attack, Jackson won his nickname of Stonewall. No appellation could be less accurate, for the essence of Jackson's tactics was movement. In the Shenandoah Valley his swift marches and countermarches totally baffled four Union commanders, and he defeated two of them (Fremont and Shields) in separate actions on succeeding days. When McClellan was strangling Richmond with his siege lines, Jackson broke through a Federal entrapment, raced down the valley to throw Washington into a panic, and then seemingly vanished from the earth-to appear days later...