Word: pros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer than the required three years, and Peru had no team of its own. At California's tennis-playing Modesto Junior College and later at the University of Southern California, where he had been sent to have his game sharpened under the watchful eyes of Kramer and other pros. Olmedo had shown promise, but little of the determination most tennis players need to be great. Rather than practice, he preferred dating girls and going to dances, seldom played his best tennis unless he considered the match "interesting...
...Pros & Amateurs. New Yorkers were fed a low-calorie diet of daily news from strange and familiar sources. The city's radio and television stations stepped up coverage, read excerpts from the columnists. On Sunday the Times and NBC sponsored an hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news...
...Dust Bowl, followed in the footsteps of his basketball-playing brothers Bailey and Henry (Bailey played with the Harlem Globetrotters). Cincinnatti fans fear the Big O may turn pro after this season, but Robertson insists he will play his senior year for the Bearcats. Adds his mother fiercely: "The pros can't touch him. I'll have something to say about that. He's going to finish school first...
Kramer had scarcely stepped off the plane before the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia spitefully banned his touring pros from its affiliated courts. Snapped one official: "Australia is Kramer's happiest hunting ground. He is out to break the amateur game, and if the L.T.A.A. gives in to him now, he will succeed." Kramer bristled, "I would expect this kind of treatment only in Russia," added coals to the fire by signing Doubles Star Mervyn Rose, ranked No. 4 in Australia...
...board as chairman. A few hours after taking over, Heineman left on a six-week, 9,000-mile tour along North Western's tracks. He learned that what was needed was radical modernization. He chopped the North Western's managerial deadwood, hired bright young railroad pros. He brought in modern bookkeeping machines and mechanized track-laying equipment, completely dieselized the line. He also became the foremost critic of union featherbedding in rails, trimmed his own payrolls from 26,300 to 18,500-but was a shrewd enough labor negotiator to avoid a full-scale strike...