Word: adaptibility
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Bats In Colombia. Some of the studies are indeed arcane. Foster did not say why the military is spending $6,462 to discover how Korean women divers adapt to cold, or $21,120 for an Israeli institute investigating how kibbutz life affects the leadership abilities of young men-although with a little imagination one can see how such subjects might be mildly pertinent to U.S. training. Nor did Foster volunteer information on a $10,500 study on nonviral microparasites in Colombian bats, or $2,500 given to a Japanese university to record the sun's eclipse in Peru...
Taylor: Your records haven't sold very well. My idea is for you to adapt established hits like Coin' Out of My Head and record them with big orchestras-strings, woodwinds, the works...
...CHERRY ORCHARD. Uta Hagen leads the APA in a gentle and balanced production of Chekhov's commentary on the sad absurdity of human beings who, unable to adapt themselves to the changes of history, grope about in a half-light that may be twilight and may be dawn. Pantagleize, The Show Off and Exit the King round out the repertory...
...exercise of its talents, it is also becoming a valuable servant of contemporary religion. All the computer does, of course, is correlate facts and attitudes that have been gathered by questionnaire. But clergymen are be coming convinced that, properly programmed, the transistorized prophet can help the church adapt to modern spiritual needs...
Squares for Imagery. The theme of the festival, in Foss's words, is "perhaps revolution, not in the Communist sense but in the Bucky Fuller sense, meaning that if we don't learn to adapt ourselves to the modern situation now, it's the end-and the artist must show us the way." The star and theme setter of the art exhibit, appropriately enough, is that grand old Russian revolutionary and pioneer sculptor of the 1920s, Naum Gabo, 77, with 28 constructions on display. Though the original idea for the festival was Foss's, the planning...