Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From California's Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight at an Arizona vacation spot last week came the nod to go ahead on the political treaty of the year: Goodie agreed to travel to Washington this week, receive the blessings of the White House, and announce that "for the good of the Republican Party" he would run for the U.S. Senate next year, leaving his governor's chair open for Senator William Fife Knowland...
...Miss Ruth" can still kick up a ripply Oriental routine-they were liveliest when kicking TV. Shawn on TV choreography: "The cameras are so nervous they're always coming up under the girls' skirts or having wind machines or closeups. The camera ought to stay in one spot and let the dancer have his day." Said silver-haired Ruth: "I'm green with envy at the space TV gives to baseball. Do you suppose we will ever grow up like the Athenians-where we really put art first and just entertainment things second...
Despite the index's flaws, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gets little support from Congress in trying to improve it. Only this year BLS tried to resume spot checks in several cities on actual consumer expenditures to see how representative its market basket is. But Congress refused to appropriate the trifling $115,000 needed. Doing his best with the tools Congress allows him, Commissioner Clague is considering asking Congress for funds to revise the index completely. Many economists believe that such an expenditure would be justified, so that BLS can find out exactly how U.S. families spend their money...
Sputnik II will pass over Boston at 12:56 Saturday afternoon. Hynek said, however, that football spectators should not attempt to spot the rocket with the naked eye, but that the Institute will try with a five-inch telescope...
...whole Eliot backfield was running well through the center of the weak Dudley line. Chuck Papalia was the one bright spot in the Dudley defense as he scored about seventy per cent of the Commuters' tackles...