Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably enough, it fell to David Merrick to wrap Bacharach and his partner into a Broadway package, complete with a golden property and a golden boy to adapt it. The plan was to take The Apartment, one of the best American movies of the last ten years, and entrust its conversion to the amazingly successful Neil Simon, famous for his four concurrent Broadway hits. But as in all schemes where addition is allowed to pass for logic, there was the danger of the parts not resting snugly with each other, and it is exactly that danger which hits Promises, Promises...
...long period, the country grew accustomed to being governed by a man of genius, but from now on it must adapt itself to being governed by men like other men." With those words, Marcello Caetano, a longtime associate of Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, last week became Premier of Portugal, ending 36 years of Salazar rule...
ROYCE Q. SHAW, a junior from Los Angeles, spends a lot of time practicing folk guitar. Nicknamed "Royce the Voice" for his ebullient, confident nature when discussing the cross country sport, Shaw has just begun to adapt to long-distance running. It is probably more than coincidence that Roy ran his two best races when his girl from Wellesley was present to provide inspiration. (Teammates are talking about chipping in to pay her way to the big meets in New York.) The holder of Harvard's indoor mile record, Royce is an explosive runner, but still is not used...
...chemicals, but in their wake came a 6-in. saltwater trash fish, the alewife (TIME, July 7, 1967), which monopolized the lakes. Four years ago, the Michigan Department of Conservation tried a bold gambit: it transported coho roe from the Pacific coast in the hope that the fingerlings would adapt to fresh water and feed on the plague of alewives...
Conglomerate Miner. In 1959, the firm added "Mining" to its name in order to reflect newer operations that now account for 65% of its revenues. "Mining is our upward thrust," says Littlefield. The thrust started when Utah decided to adapt its earth-moving skills to open-pit mining projects. It has since become, in effect, a conglomerate miner...