Word: bigly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week, after some early-season breathers, Kentucky faced its first big test from a University of Kansas team coached by Rupp's own onetime teacher, Phog Allen.* A record 13,000 fans filled Kentucky's new Memorial Coliseum to watch the duel between Kentucky's Spivey (rhymes with ivy) and Clyde Lovellette, the Kansas skyscraper (6 ft. 9 in.) who set a Big Seven record of 545 points in 25 games last year. Before the game Rupp warned reporters: "As Spivey goes, we go." Spivey went beautifully...
...boss at Notre Dame was in no doubt. Last week, at the annual football dinner, President John J. Cavanaugh announced that Leahy was getting a "substantial" increase in salary (this year estimated at $15,000). Furthermore, in case anybody thought Notre Dame was going to 1) abandon big-time football, or 2) join in "the chicanery" of checkbook recruiting, he was mightily mistaken. "We are flatly and irreconcilably against paying football players directly or indirectly," said Father Cavanaugh...
Despite the rollback on auto prices and hints that prices in other industries may also be controlled soon, food prices continued to skedaddle gaily upwards (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But though food comprises a big 40% of the Government's cost-of-living index (v. 4.8 for autos), there was little talk in Washington about slapping on mandatory controls. Reason: there was nothing that Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle could legally do to stop the rise in most foods...
...stabilizers had assumed that the profits of the auto industry were big enough to absorb increases in wages and raw materials. It was true that the profits of some auto companies had been enormous. But they were big largely because of capacity production. With big cuts in auto production ahead, profits would drop far faster than the actual reduction in volume. In short, the Government's new venture into price control gave businessmen little confidence that the present control program would be a success...
...big troubles with censorship, as even censors could plainly see last week, is that anyone can get into...