Word: virtualization
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...Virtual Slavery?" Happy Chandler's attitude, expressed last week, was that "no major leaguer makes less than $5,000 a year and some make up to $100,000. If you call that peonage, then a lot of us would like to be in it." But Gardella had one answer to that: his salary with the Giants had ranged from $1,850 to $4,000. Judge Jerome Frank of the court of appeals had another: "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that higher pay excuses virtual slavery...
Attendance Up. Seven called Times Critic Harvey Taylor and told him, he reported, that they had signed a paper under virtual coercion demanding that Taylor himself be barred from all future concerts. The Times front-paged the whole story...
Winthrop was in tough straights all afternoon. Bob Cameron, high speed specialist of the Puritan offense, got away on a 35 yard run and the only touchdown of the game on a fake reverse. From then on the Gold Coasters took over virtual control of the ball and late in the fourth quarter pushed it deep into Winthrop territory...
Kirkland is now in a virtual tie for first place with Eliot and Winthrop, each team sporting an unblemished 2-0 record. Dudley and Lowell are tied for second place, each having won one and lost one, while Adams, Dunster, and Leverett are still looking for their first victories...
Like many ex-Communists, Ruth Fischer tends to deify Lenin, heaping all the sins of Communism on Stalin. A typical Fischer anecdote: in 1925 Stalin had summoned her to Moscow. When she arrived her passport was taken away and for ten months she was a virtual prisoner in Moscow's flea-bitten Hotel Lux. Stalin left Moscow on vacation and Zinoviev plotted to get her safely back to Germany...