Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had been passed over when President Eisenhower named Major General David Shoup, 54, to become Marine Corps commandant effective Jan. 1, 1960. Explained General Megee in Honolulu: "I am retiring because of the feeling that when the Defense Department selects a junior officer for the top spot, it is best to show loyalty by stepping aside...
...also made the New York police blotter last week by getting in a scrape in front of Manhattan's Birdland jazz spot. According to the cops, Davis and fans were blocking the sidewalk, refused to heed an order to move on; in the scuffle Davis got blackjacked, was charged with assaulting a policeman, and had his performer's permit suspended...
INDUSTRY. There are only spot shortages. Steel warehouses still have about 3,000,000 tons-just 700,000 tons less than when the strike began-are selling off 175,000 tons a week. The American Steel Warehouse Association checked 20 warehouses last week, found no sweeping nationwide increase in demand. The building industry will start running out of steel in September; so will makers of appliances, farm machinery, ships. Steelmakers have told Cincinnati toolmakers that even if peace comes soon they cannot expect deliveries for three or four months-so long is the waiting list of top-priority defense contractors...
...room stone house in Greenwich. Conn, to his antique-studded office on the 53rd floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, he usually takes along an RCA executive for a back-seat conference in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac. Visiting the U.S. exhibit in Moscow, Burns was Johnny on the spot during the Khrushchev-Nixon debate. He quietly slipped an exclusive TV tape to a departing U.S. businessman, who flew it out to give U.S. audiences an uncensored look...
...hardy weed. In Suburbia, where crab grass on a lawn can lower a man's status faster than a garbage can in his foyer, the prolific (up to 50,000 seeds a plant) weed has become a neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison is often ineffective or kills other grasses, mowing only conditions crab grass to produce its seeds closer to the ground...