Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians' infield consists of Vic Power, but in the outfield, perhaps Cleveland's strongest spot, Minoso, Piersall and Colavito provide the main first-division hope...
...changes were about double the normally expected springtime improvements. They reflected a sizable dent in the idle-worker problem that has been the only major bad spot in the nation's recession recovery...
...scientific study. Disassembling it, he will examine each reel, spring and screw. How best to make his entry? What tool will do the job? What part of the mechanism should be jimmied with what tool? Then comes careful experimentation until at last he discovers the machine's weak spot: the locked door, or a tiny opening for a wire, or a vulnerable glass plate. After patient hours of practice, the thief collects his tools and goes to work, preferably in a big club where from 40 to 400 slot-machine players are trying their luck at the same time...
...four-girl Barnard College team, led by Heritage ("Cherry") White, 21, and Phyllis Hurwitz, 17, creamed the University of Southern California (three males, one female) 195 to 65. By winning its second straight victory (fortnight ago the girls beat Notre Dame 230 to 110), Barnard nailed a spot on the next program, on April 12 (v. the University of Minnesota), will stay on until defeated. The only cash prizes: $1,500 for the Barnard scholarship fund, $500 for Loser U.S.C.-both from Sponsor General Electric. Participants get no money at all. No cash...
...medium-priced lines will be hard hit by the approaching battle of the compact cars. Their sales, which were 37% of all sales only four years ago, last week were down to 25%-and still slipping. Most experts expect the new compact cars to occupy the spot once held by the Ford, Chevy and Plymouth before they got big enough to push out the medium-priced cars...