Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). Rocky Castellani v. Tiger Jones in ten-round middleweight bout...
Rude Shock. Billy Joe Patton, the jovial lumberman from North Carolina who came close to winning the 1954 Masters, fell in the first round. He had Charles Coe, the 1949 winner, for company. Last year's Runner-Up Bob Sweeney lasted little longer. Handsome Harvie Ward, 29, the San Francisco car salesman who is onetime British amateur and U.S. intercollegiate champion, Walker Cup player and low amateur in this year's Masters and National Open, gave even himself a rude shock by barely squeaking through his first match. Easily a favorite in the pre-tournament selections, Ward...
After their dismal showing in the Davis Cup challenge round, U.S. tennis players hardly figured to stand a chance in their own national championship. Australia's Lew Hoad, with his big, booming game, and Ken Rosewall, with his classic ground shots, looked too hot to handle. Ex-Champions Seixas and Trabert should have been completely outclassed...
Plans Aplenty. Republic's announcement is the starting gun in a new round of expansion by all steelmakers (present capacity: 125.8 million tons). Virtually every steelmaker has definite plans for new facilities, but most are holding off until the Government decides whether de fense needs justify extension of the industry's present fast-tax-write-off program beyond 1957. Many steelmen expect to see three brand-new U.S. Steel plants in Detroit. Houston and Birmingham by 1958. Bethlehem is also expected to start expanding again. Jones & Laughlin may build a new 2.5 million-ton plant and boost capacity...
Republic's Charlie White, who calls himself "not a professional optimist," doubts that even the new round of ex pansion will meet the nation's needs. White expects steel consumption to reach 1,450 pounds per capita...