Word: shakeup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city-room earthquake rocked the morning San Francisco Chronicle, and 38 staffers disappeared from view, including Boy Wonder Editor Paul Smith (TIME, Dec. 22, 1952). Before the shakeup, the Chronicle had a studious and often dull international bent, a slipping circulation of 155,205 (down 20,356 in five years), and an annual deficit of $1,000,000. Last week, edited as though the world began at San Francisco Bay and ended at the Golden Gate, the Chronicle was proudly-and accurately-calling itself the nation's fastest-growing major daily both in ads and circulation...
...shakeup in varsity performances can be partly explained by Van Cortlandt Park itself. Poor footing and the gruelling "Heartbreak Hill" are a challenge to runners used to the smooth and rolling Franklin Park course. And the unusually warm, dry day may have caused many of the unimpressive varsity performances. But inability to master Van Cortlandt could be a serious problem, since both the Heptagonals and IC4A meets will be held there--and against several teams for whom the Park is a "home course...
...President called for a stepped-up missiles program, a shakeup in the Pentagon to halt harmful rivalries, and greater economic aid to countries facing "a massive economic offensive" from the Kremlin...
...Washington, Eisenhower administration leaders eagerly sought all possible facts on the Zhukov shakeup, aware that the sensational mystery may be profoundly significant in evaluating Soviet power and foreign policy...
...remarkable fact of the latest Kremlin shakeup was that Khrushchev found it necessary to define Communism's goals in American terms-"initiative," "incentives," etc. He told a workers' mass meeting in Leningrad that Communists should "be able to solve the problem of catching up with the U.S.A.," that the Soviet people should have enough meat, butter, milk and fruit, and their shops should be filled with "everything that makes man's life more beautiful...