Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dust-dry summer, Harry Byrd's apples are smaller than usual. But in the middle of an autumn that began with Little Rock, Byrd's political harvest may well be a record-breaker. Four years ago the G.O.P.'s Dalton won a threatening 45% of the vote, competing against Byrd Candidate Thomas B. Stanley for governor, in an atmosphere of pre-integration calm and post-Eisenhower-election rosiness...
...Star. Back in Britain, the Prince became a TV star overnight when the BBC asked him to drop by and give the kids a talk on the tour. Philip took a full 52 minutes telling about it (and thus set a new record for the longest ad lib broadcast ever made on the network). Skillfully cutting in films and slides on cue, the Prince rambled on about anything and everything. "I'm not surprised it was forbidden," he said, describing the horrid taste of a vegetable believed by those in the Seychelles Islands to be the original forbidden fruit...
...five years that he has been at the University of Nevada, Minard Stout, 49, has in one way chalked up a record that any university president might envy. He trebled state support coming from bond issues and appropriations, upped private gifts ten times. He raised faculty salaries 68%, set up colleges of education and business administration, a graduate school, a school of nursing, and a junior college in Las Vegas. But ever since he got Biologist Frank Richardson fired for accusing him of lowering academic standards (TIME, June 15, 1953), he has been the center of the bitterest storm ever...
...single Series, first ever to shut out the Yankees in two Series games. It was all the more impressive because the Braves gave Burdette remarkably little help at bat. Although Centerfielder Hank Aaron hit three home runs and a total of eleven hits (one less than the Series record), the new champions together set a record as the lowest-hitting team ever to win a seven-game Series (average...
Consumers & Profits. Yet the market slump did not seem to bear much relationship to the economy as a whole. Despite Wall Street's bearishness. the U.S. consumer is buying more than ever. Estimates of 1957 retail business as a whole put the totals at a record $200 billion, up $8.5 billion from 1956'$ peak. Construction volume in September rose to $4.6 billion, up 4% over a year earlier. And the first earnings reports for 1957's third quarter showed that companies were still making record profits. American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines both posted new highs...