Word: pros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college football did not have enough to battle in student apathy, television, and high expenses, the University would be inviting more trouble by renting the Stadium to professionals. Fans who have no emotional attachment to Harvard football would much rather pay about $1.50 on a Sunday (the pros generally price tickets on a sliding scale) for the same seat that costs $4-$5 on a Saturday (Harvard, like most colleges, has a uniform rate...
...program that included such contemporary crowd rousers as the overtures to Michele Carafa's La Prison d'Edimbourg and Francois Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche. Most of the time since, it has stuck to a rigid amateur policy; only the conductors and guest soloists are pros. Part of the orchestra's success stems from its organization; its governing board is made up of playing members, and each of the orchestra's 95 instrumentalists must survive an annual audition; if any player does not measure up, he loses his place, must give way to fresh outside...
Eruptions & Clusters. Around the league this season, the pros are displaying a variety of play that college football cannot match. Canny, veteran quarterbacks such as Philadelphia's Norm Van Brocklin, 33, and Pittsburgh's Bobby Layne, 32, still dominate their teams. With a tricky, lateraling attack, the Chicago Cardinals can erupt for clusters of points. Last year's champion Baltimore Colts can field a covey of stars led by young (26) Johnny Unitas, a onetime reject from the Pittsburgh Steelers who is rated the best quarterback in football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league...
...reaching for an issue. In a time of evident prosperity, the "slow corrosion" issue turned prosperity from the world's wonder to a road to wickedness and decadence. But the issue gained strength from general uneasiness about the U.S. lag in space and missilery. Some hard-boiled Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington's line: "The people are not too flabby to do the job; they...
...tall as a ceiling, agile as a mongoose. Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in., 220 lbs.) has faster reactions and more experience, is going into his fourth season with the champion Celtics. To challenge Russell's franchise among the best of the tree-tall pros, the Philadelphia Warriors' Wilt-the-Stilt Chamberlain offers 7 ft. 2 in., 250 coordinated pounds, and a broad repertory of shots: dunks, long one-handers, a soft, fadeaway jump...