Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River to receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts. Another strong possibility: De Long platforms as offshore launching pads for antiaircraft missiles. Says a De Long executive: "Almost every week somebody who has heard about our platforms calls up and suggests...
...Chicago White Sox Coach Ray Berres was disgusted: Starter Bob Keegan refused to relax between pitches, even during pregame warmup. Coach Berres was afraid visiting Washington Senator batters would pick up the rapid rhythm and tee off on the aging (36) righthander. But Keegan was afraid that if he slowed down he would lose his balance and fall off the mound on his follow through. So they worked out a compromise: Keegan concentrated on slowing down just a little. It was enough. He beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first...
...about to issue any ringing endorsements. Next day Ike's position became clearer. Leaving a White House conference, House Minority Leader Joe Martin reported the President "not entirely satisfied" with the compromise. But, said Martin: "I think that in all probability the Administration will accept it as a starter if passed by Congress...
Outboard Dugout. At a wharf in the Tutong River, a Dayak fisherman, the descendant of generations of headhunters, climbs into his primitive dugout canoe, glances at his stainless-steel Rolex wristwatch, yanks the starter cord on his Johnson outboard motor, and whooshes upstream in a spray of foam (in one year alone, more than 1,000 outboard motors were sold in Brunei). Farther along the river, a work crew of tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters...
...year, if ever, Birdie has reason to concentrate on baseball. Cincinnati fans have already decided that the pennant is in the bag. They are so proud of their team that they have stuffed the All-Star ballot boxes so full that the All-Star game voting (which picks every starter except the pitchers) has been reduced to a patriotic absurdity. The poll count decreed that the National League start Cincinnati Redlegs at every position except first base. There, St. Louis' sturdy oldtimer Stan Musial managed to stand off the Redlegs' rooters. Though the balloting was perfectly legal under...