Word: pros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line in favor of re jiggered priorities (more ICBMs) within present spending. Turning his attention to the farm program, he failed to score with cloudy hints of Commodity Credit scandals, or help write a new party farm program. Half-time score: Symington is still the favorite of most Democratic pros (notably Missouri's own Harry Truman), is the only candidate with no "insuperable handicap," but cannot yet boast a single important legislative achievement to support his presidential pretensions...
...Many RCA pros bet that steady John Burns would wilt in the brightly lit world of entertainment. Instead, Burns outshone the lights. He boosted RCA's non-entertainment business by more than 30%, directed the company to new areas and products. Under Burns, RCA brought out its stereo tape-cartridge, the first successful one in the industry. Burns moved RCA strongly into circuitry, controls and computers. RCA has developed the first medium-sized, all-transistor computer, hopes to find a big market in paper-clogged Wall Street. Burns took over RCA's money-losing color-TV project...
...kids have meshed to produce a balanced ball club. The Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than 95% of the games he has started. At 32, Outfielder Duke Sniders hair is grey, but his steel-blue eyes...
...face-losing Western agreement to go to the summit despite President Eisenhower's public avowals that progress at Geneva was a precondition to a summit meeting. As a way of avoiding both alternatives, Herter urged the President to invite Khrushchev to the U.S. Ike had often discussed the pros and cons of a Khrushchev visit with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; he agreed with Herter that the pros now might outweigh the cons...
...script is neither profound nor off-beat, as most of the Tufts repertoire traditionally is. It is actually little more than a reminder from a couple of real pros that the old adage "there's no business like show business" has some foundation. But it is amazing how much more sophisticated, well-constructed, and entertaining this thirty-year-old piece is than the comparable Broadway material of today...