Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rookie Centerfielder Bob Allison, 25, handsome, hustling former fullback for the University of Kansas who once swung "like an old lady," according to Manager Cookie Lavagetto, but now has grooved his power so smoothly that he is dubbed "Mr. Downstairs" for his line-drive home runs, stands third in the league with...
...Third Baseman Harmon ("The Killer") Killebrew, 22 (TIME, May 25), the sturdy (6 ft., 195 Ibs.) youngster from Idaho with the massive shoulders who does not make the new boy's mistake of guessing at pitches. He is "Mr. Upstairs" for the towering drives that put him first in the majors with home runs (30), first in the league with runs batted...
...like the birds, broadcasting radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast the storm is moving, its pressure, etc. A second gadget still under test is a big, inflated sphere that will ride the surface ocean waves in the eye, broadcasting similar information at sea level. Still a third promising device: a camera-carrying rocket that flies high enough to bring down pictures of an entire hurricane, several hundred miles across, give weathermen their first complete look at a big blow...
...meet only at two-year intervals. But the Oberlin meeting decided to reconvene for a special session next July to vote on the constitution. This would give the Congregationalist and E. & R. church members a year to ratify the constitution, which could then be put into effect by the third General Synod...
Whether the negotiators reached a last-minute settlement or allowed a strike to tie up 90% of U.S. steel production, those facts had already brought about a dramatic and significant change in the climate of U.S. labor relations. For the first time in 23 years, the nation's third most powerful union (after the teamsters and the autoworkers) had run-to its shocked surprise -into a stone wall. After years of giving in to union demands for wage raises, the steel industry this year met labor with a hard new line, refused right up to this week to give...