Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia Warriors gained an easy 114-80 victory over the Ft. Wayne Pistons in the opener...
...University of Kansas' lanky (7-ft.-2-in.) Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain is the most publicized college-basketball player in a generation. Before he graduated from a Philadelphia high school, the pros were squabbling over him; more than 140 colleges were bidding for his services. Still far from his prime, Wilt is just too big for most opponents. Ever since The Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt...
...Bartlesville scheme neatly bypasses FCC because, instead of the public air, it will use coaxial cable strung on telephone poles to link each set with the broadcast. And instead of alienating the local movie exhibitors, it has enlisted them as partners. The idea originated with Philadelphia's Jerrold Electronics Corp., which pioneered in wiring community antenna systems for towns too remote for ordinary TV signals. The company set out to persuade movie exhibitors that it would "give them a chance to get into the home and compete with TV on its own battleground." The idea appealed to Video Independent...
...carry out this mission, Thompson lunched with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, picked up Administration support for diverting Venezuelan crude. He also urged new pipeline capacity "in the interests of national security" from Texas to the East Coast, possibly Philadelphia, where natural gas now arrives from Texas in the war-built Little Inch pipeline. An application to convert Little Inch from gas to petroleum products is already before the Federal Power Commission from Houston Contractors George and Herman Brown, and is sure to get quick attention...
...Symphony No. 1, by Philadelphia-born Pianist Leo Smit, 36, performed by the Boston Symphony under Charles Munch. The work, which was four years in the writing, is solidly constructed and pricked by a series of adroit, Stravinsky-like dislocations of rhythm. The strings are almost continually and often trickily active -so much so that they tend to drown out the detail of other instruments and blur the musical ideas...