Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Fairleigh Dickinson showed other signs of success. It has had more than 2,000 applications for the 950 vacancies in its coming freshman class, will hit a total enrollment of 7,250. Meanwhile, the number of companies competing for F.D. graduates has gone up from twelve in 1953 to 87. After 14 years, Peter Sammartino may not have created a candidate for the Ivy League, but he has built an institution that suits his community. "Somebody," says he, "has to pioneer in providing a college education for the increased number who want it at a price within their...
...Aussies (taking nine wickets in the first innings, all ten in the second). The first man ever to take all ten wickets in one innings of Test cricket, the first ever to take 19 in a Test match, Jim Laker had accomplished roughly the equivalent of pitching a no-hit game in the World Series. And almost singlehanded he had kept the Ashes, symbol of international cricket supremacy, in England. ¶ On Utah's glaring, glass-smooth salt flats, Germany's Wilhelm Herz wasted one lap when timing equipment failed, still got the last whisper of speed...
...while passenger deficits may have been wildly exaggerated, there is no doubt that the rails have been hard hit by autos and buses for short haul passengers, by airlines for the long haul. Between 1947 and 1955 railroads lost 32% of their passenger mileage, while the scheduled airlines gained 217%. In freight hauling, the rails' proportion of the total fell from...
...Hard hit by the rising prices of raw materials and production costs, Japan is fighting a losing battle to close its chronic $42 million monthly gap in trade with the dollar area. Japan's total exports last year amounted to only 57% of the 1934-36 average, while imports rose to 80%, according to the government's Economic Planning Board. Japanese businessmen call themselves the "orphans of Asia"; they have spent ten years trying to cultivate new markets and dependable sources of raw materials in South and Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. But, argued Ishibashi...
North Carolina's Wilmington Morning Star (circ. 17,866) went to press with a front-page picture of four Marine witnesses in the court-martial of Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As soon as the paper hit his desk, the editor on duty gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel...