Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no longer much doubt that harried Ezra Benson is going to run up against sharp pitchforks on Capitol Hill in the session just ahead. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that, with improved moisture conditions in prospect, 1958's winter wheat harvest will run a glutting 28% bigger than 1957's. But far from taking the wheat forecast as further evidence that the high price-support approach has failed (TIME, Dec. 23), Chairman Harold D. Cooley of the House Agriculture Committee declared that Benson "won't get to first base" with his proposal to lower...
...eleven victories and twelve defeats. He was almost ready to believe the unkind critics who maintained that he lost his stuff in the clutch. Then things got worse. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, and Big Newk (6 ft. 4 in.) began to worry himself witless over the prospect of being forced to fly from game to game...
...Revolution? How long can the record boom go on? Indefinitely, according to the industry's hopeful calculations. The prospect of new technical developments promises to open the market wider than ever. There are now some 40 stereophonic tape labels; Westrex and London Records in the U.S. have announced the development of single-stylus stereo disk systems...
...stereo tape is still expensive (as much as $18.95 for a recording of Brahms's First Symphony, v. $3.98 for the same symphony on LP). A better prospect for a new revolution in recordings : sound-plus-picture. Engineers are now working on a disk that will be keyed to a picture to be played on a television screen. The audiophile will see Harry Belafonte singing at the Waldorf as he listens to him, will watch the great operas unfold onstage as the music pours from his phonograph...
President Eisenhower and the leaders of 14 other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed to proceed with a study along these lines, outside the U.N., but only so long as such talks should show some prospect of success...