Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payoff of Protocol. In the banquets and speeches that followed, the Indonesians were polite but not Reddish; they have been having Communist trouble at home. The Burmese did a little better: their chief delegate toasted Mao and denounced the U.S. But the real payoff for the Reds came from Pandit Sundarlal, who had arrived in Peking proclaiming that India wants China's friendship, but also America's and Britain's. He had been "deeply impressed," he said, by what he saw: "Every Indian knows that the Soviet Union stands for peace, that China stands for peace...
...players who are doing the work. Talk with all of them; they're a great bunch. It's a privilege to manage them." While Durocher kept mum, the Giants won the first playoff game, lost the second, and trailed 4-2 in the ninth inning of the payoff game...
...Michigan State's football team, No. 1 in the nation, over seventh-ranked Ohio State, 24-20; at Columbus, Ohio. Behind ten points in the last quarter and outplayed throughout the game, Michigan State picked itself up and scored two quick touchdowns. The payoff play: a 27-yd. scoring pass by Sophomore Halfback Tom Yewcic. Other notable results: Tennessee, with a touchdown in every quarter, over unbeaten Duke, 26-0; Texas A. & M. over Oklahoma, 14-7, to cut the Sooners' regular-season streak at 29 straight victories; Princeton over Navy, 24-20, giving the Tigers the longest...
Unshaken Man. The President still seemed supremely confident that there was no political danger to his administration from Bill Boyle. Last week, after Siskind had testified about the $150,000 payoff to Boyle, the rumor ran around Washington that Bill Boyle was through. But Harry Truman faced his press conference, and said his confidence in Bill Boyle was unshaken...
...airline operators, the booming passenger traffic was a welcome payoff for their heavy postwar investment in bigger, faster planes, and their patient plugging of such promotional stunts as the Air Coach and the Family Fare Plan (wives & children travel half-fare on slack midweek days). They had managed to raise their average load factor-the percentage of seats occupied-from 57% to 66.7%, reach the point where every additional traffic gain caused a bigger proportional rise in profits...