Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good is Althea? Fortnight ago she led the U.S. team to an easy Wightman Cup victory (TIME, Aug. 19); last week she did beat both Louise Brough and Darlene Hard to win the Essex County Invitational tournament in Manchester, Mass. She may not yet be close to the steady, spectacular game that was the hallmark of women's tennis in the days of Suzanne Lenglen and Molla Mallory, of Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs. The champions of a few years ago-Pauline Betz, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly-could probably have beaten her. But at an age when...
...captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody. The cop's undebatable reasoning: criminals are a much greater menace to Mature than he is to them. If only bungling Vic had been kept safe in the pokey, Villain Howard and his spectacular doxy Anita would doubtless have been brought to justice several reels sooner...
...singular drive and energy, is giving the country the highest living standard in the Far East. And the living standard in Tokyo is higher than anywhere else in the four main rich and fertile islands of Japan. This, in part, is responsible for Tokyo's spectacular population increase, which now averages about 250,000 annually-from 70,000 to 80,000 through Tokyo births alone, and a colossal 180,000 annually through immigration from the countryside. As a symbol of power and riches, Tokyo has now become to plain Japanese what London was to Dick Whittington, or New York...
Spectacle & Sport. But even the doubters admit that Levy & Co. and their durable pacers and trotters put on a good show. Harness racing, maintains Levy, is a more spectacular sport than flat racing. "The interval between our races isn't boring. These horses are out there all the time, running back and forth in front of the stands, warming up. Some of them run five, six miles a night before the race. You can't do that with a thoroughbred. And the lights all make it look better. In the next ten years, harness racing will double...
...there is little on the horizon to indicate any real slackening in the economic tide. In a report issued this week, the Twentieth Century Fund declared that U.S. productive power has grown at such a spectacular rate over the last half-century that the American economy has assumed entirely new dimensions. "The U.S. has not merely climbed to a new plateau but is ascending heights whose upper limit is not yet measurable, and at an accelerated rate of speed. Our long-term trend is unmistakably upward...