Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around-the-clock fleets of radar patrol planes and radar picket ships have been keenly aware of Russia's fleet of radar-equipped fishing trawlers cruising constantly in the richly stocked Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Last week, in a fast-moving action made notable by first-rate teamwork between White House, State Department and Pentagon, the U.S. Navy performed a historic peacetime action by intercepting and boarding one of the trawlers...
...masses, who are trucked to the polls every six years to vote their approval of the planters' latest officer-candidate for President. The head count of 2,400,000 citizens ranks El Salvador as the most crowded nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality rate of 20%, keeps going up by 4% a year. But Lemus, an efficient President, has completed the best road network in Central America. Now he would like to raise $190 million in public and private funds to fuel an ambitious "ten-year plan" designed to diversify agriculture, build schools, houses...
...varsity wrestling team will close out a season of disappointments and near-misses this afternoon at New Haven against a strong Yale squad that must rate as a heavy favorite...
Coach Jack Barnaby does not rate any of his men as top contenders for the title. The men to watch are the host team's Steve Vehslage, now rated as the top intercollegiate player in the country, and the highly rated captain of Dartmouth, Dickie Hoehn, son of the Indian's coach...
...showing off the talents of the new company, especially since the adaptation by Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Wager has gotten rid of the mustiness that clung to earlier versions. It has no star part, only a good number of important middle-sized ones. Its story--about a second-rate theatrical company whose indolent rehearsal of a lousy play is suddenly and spookily interrupted by six intense black-clad figures, claiming to be characters from an unfinished "tragedy" and demanding that the company dramatize their miserable history--this story gives scope for a series of light satirical sketches of theatrical types...