Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antitrust and unfair-practice cases. Last week, when he resigned, Chairman Howrey was able to tell the President: "The Commission has been reorganized from top to bottom. Its docket is up-to-date for the first time in almost 40 years. Its policies have been reoriented to the original intent of Congress...
...catcher merely as a target for the pitcher to shoot at. Actually, the job is the most demanding in baseball. A good catcher must be able to take punishment. Foul tips batter his hands; the batter's big club swishes past his skull; base runners hit him with intent to maim as they slide for home. Through it all he must use his head, for he is baseball's tactical commander, its platoon leader. He must watch the signs according to the batter, the score, the inning. He must hide his own signals from the runner on second...
Every night last week, 16-year-old Lewis Macfarlane, a tall, intent Seattle high-school senior, carefully trained his homemade 8-in. telescope on a northeastern sector of the star-sprinkled sky. Now and then he paused to check his notes with fellow sky-watcher Karl Krienke, 24, a math teacher at Seattle Pacific College. They were compiling a log-speed, appearance, location-on Comet 1955F, and their unmistakable pride came from the fact that they had just discovered the new comet themselves...
...George Gobel, were keeping their names on TV all summer by producing the replacements for their own comedy hours. In the Gleason spot was CBS's America's Greatest Bands (Sat. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), which presents four different jazz bands each week and thus far has seemed intent on proving how unimaginatively popular music can be presented in a visual medium. In Sid Caesar's NBC spot was Caesar Presents (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), a catastrophically unfunny comedy show. Said the trade sheet Variety: "Originally, it was Caesar's intent to base the summer series...
...common knowledge," said the Forty and Eight executive committee, "that the national organization of the American Legion is, and for more than the past seven years has been, under the domination and control of a small group of men . . . With intent only to annoy, harass and humiliate us, they denied our humble petition for leave to have our usual separate parade . . . We can bear no more. Therefore, with heavy hearts and unconcealed sorrow, appealing to the Supreme Judge of all men for the rectitude of our intentions, we renounce our association with the American Legion...