Word: winning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table the way I do. He can be firm as a rock." Shortly after he took over as boss of the Navy, Anderson overruled a promotion board's decision to pass over abrasive Captain Hyman Rickover, nuclear submarine pioneer, for the second and final time (two failures to win promotion to rear admiral meant automatic retirement). Determined to keep Rickover in the Navy, Anderson ordered a selection board to promote to rear admiral one engineering captain experienced in atomic propulsion. The only man in the Navy who filled the bill was Hyman Rickover...
Getting out the riches is notably hindered by disease. Malaria, yellow fever, yaws, trachoma and filariasis (a forerunner of elephantiasis) sap men's will to work and win. But disease is being fought hard and successfully. During World War II, the U.S. launched a Special Public Health Service (SESP) to protect vital rubber workers from the Amazon's scourges. Now only eight of SESP' 3,153-man staff are U.S. citizens, and 97% of its annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal...
...until Iowa's Evashevski adopted the system in 1956 and went on to win two Big Ten championships and two Rose Bowl games in three seasons did the winged T become famous. Impressed, L.S.U.'s Dietzel last year adopted the attack, won ten straight, and the national championship...
Last week Nelson was taking solace from his philosophy after his undefeated team, ranked first among the nation's small colleges, was outmanned and outplayed by Ohio's undefeated Bowling Green, 30-8. Nelson could not, and does not, expect to win them all. But he could be sure that, come Monday, the phone would be ringing at Endicott 8-8511, the soundest defensive call since...
...National League's MVP: Slugging Shortstop Ernie Banks, 28, of the fifth-place Chicago Cubs, who led the majors in runs batted in (143), finished second in the majors in home runs (45), set a league fielding record for shortstops (.985), became the first player ever to win the award two years running...