Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week's audience seemed more than satisfied with the current state of Events. Provided with a piercing, acid jazz score by Prince, the dance begins with a scene of total desolation: three men and a girl slump with wan, expressionless faces before Shahn's backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare...
...take the Monster's measure, it was Gene Littler, 30, a sandy-haired, ham-handed ex-sailor from La Jolla, Calif. A reserved, coldly efficient man dubbed "Gene the Machine" and "Stone Face." he was runnerup in the 1954 Open. But then he went into a disastrous slump, and had yet to redeem his promise. Out of play with a rib injury early this year, he had not won a tournament, but he was slowly regaining his old style and steadily perfecting his putting...
...When Warren Spahn, on the way to his no-hitter, carelessly fed Mays a fat pitch, Willie meekly grounded back to the box. "I was in deep," said Willie, "and I thought I was going deeper." Then, in another game against the Braves, Mays suddenly snapped out of his slump. Battering three Milwaukee pitchers, he became the ninth player in baseball history to hit four home runs in a single ball game (others: Lou Gehrig, Gil Hodges, Joe Adcock). In the process, Mays drove in eight runs, boosted his batting average to .333, helped the Giants set a National League...
Losses. The Re operations often caused the stock to slump, and many a celebrity was reportedly victimized, including Restaurant Owner Toots Shor, Milwaukee Braves Manager Chuck Dressen and Vincent F. Albano Jr., Republican leader of Manhattan's East Side. Even Exchange President Edward T. McCormick turned up in the investigation as a onetime Re customer who spent $1,800 for over-the-counter stocks (which they were not licensed to sell...
Many companies with lower first-quarter earnings reported that they had already begun to shake off the slump. As the first major steelmaker to report, Republic Steel foretold improving industry conditions. Though per share earnings fell to 37? from $1.80 last year, Republic's President T. F. Patton said that "an encouraging upturn in orders and shipments developed in March and is continuing...