Word: adapters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's offensive woes do indeed lie in not being able to adapt to and execute Restic's complex offense, then it may be a long Ivy season...
Junior Tom New and sophomores Freddy Linsk and Jerry Hines round out the traveling squad for today's meet. Linsk and Hines, both running in their second five-mile race, could have a major bearing on the Crimson's success if they can adapt to the distance and the added pressure, but they will have to crack the Quakers' secondary wave of Rafferty, Ken Keehn and Frank O'Connor. It is a lot to ask, and it may be too much at this stage of the season...
...actors, having a company of their own they call Theater Two and now a night of three one-act plays they call "Changes." Talented boys, Joel and Steve. Not only do the two of them play all the parts themselves, but they also act as their own artistic directors, adapt their material, stage it, you name it. What you might call a regular two de force...
...eliminated in one of the primaries or at the convention. His campaign has, like the candidate himself, a certain steadiness, equilibrium rather than passion. Whether it is enough to be the sober centrist in a divided party remains to be seen, as does Muskie's capacity to adapt, grow and learn now that the race is beginning in earnest...
Basketball Behemoth Wilt Chamberlain stands 7 ft. 1 in. tall, weighs 275 Ibs. Even so, he complains, "I've had to adapt to normal sizes all my life." Not any more. To contain his outsize physique, Chamberlain is building a $1,000,000 house in the Hollywood hills. Soon he will be able to enter a 14-ft. doorway, toast in front of a 45-ft. fireplace, plunge into a 14-ft.-deep pool and loll on an 8-ft. by 9-ft. bed in a 1,000-sq.-ft. boudoir under a 14-ft. ceiling...