Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quarterback Johnson, backed by his old coach, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, decided to play Dwight Eisenhower's game. Angering the liberals, Johnson refused to hurl their spending bills full-sized against inevitable vetoes, thus make an irresponsible "record" for next year's campaigns. He sought instead to shrink the proposals just enough to get under the veto, but failed in this tactic when Ike refused to compromise on the budget line. Johnson was blamed by labor for swinging key Texas Congressmen to a tough version of the labor reform bill. So by half time, Johnson had picked...
...week dutifully made no direct reference to it. But in the newsmagazine Akis, which bitterly opposes the heavy-handed regime of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, there appeared, under the title "Ugly American," a feature story illustrated by a picture of career Diplomat Fletcher Warren. After deploring U.S. ambassadors who play footie with dictators, Akis recalled that Warren was U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela in the days of Dictator Perez Jimenez, concluded with the laconic statement that he is now Ambassador to Turkey...
...tennis is in a poor state. With the single exception of Cincinnati's crew-cut Tony Trabert, who turned pro in 1955, the U.S. has not produced a tennis star of consistent world championship caliber since Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids of Pro Promoter Jack Kramer on Australia's crack performers have lopped off amateur stars as fast as they emerged. Three years ago an erratic, second-string southpaw named Neale Fraser was ranked well behind Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, was later overshadowed by Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper...
Jones and the Giants know that this is the week that may decide the three-way pennant fight: they play two games with Milwaukee, three with Los Angeles. Sad Sam is ready. "The arm's been ten years hurting," he says. "Now I've got control of this crooked elbow, I don't mind when it hurts...
...Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry's poignant prizewinning first play about a Chicago Negro family that yearns to leave the black South Side jungle for a place in the white suburban...