Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even take a one-week course in competition driving from Racer-Designer (Ford-Cobra) Carroll Shelby. For the really successful racing driver, the rewards are great. Fred Lorenzen has already won $63,675 on the stock-car circuit this year, and A. J. Foyt, who is equally adept in stock cars, sports cars and Indianapolis roadsters, won $250,000 in 1964. Another field is that led by Art Arfons, who hit 600 m.p.h. in his jet-powered Green Monster at Bonneville last October, now has his sights set on breaking the sound barrier-on land. Arfons has his hero...
...news that Sophia Loren would play the role of Mother Cabrini in a new movie? They sure would-and did, when Carlo Ponti told them so. But last week the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order that Mother Cabrini founded, showed it was just as adept at deflating phony publicity. "We feel very strongly," wrote Mother Ursula, president of Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa., "that Miss Loren is the worst possible choice to portray a holy woman." In the first place, there were "the bigamy charges." And secondly, her protest continued, "Sophia doesn't have...
Though Fleming insists that his department keeps a close eye on history departments at other universities throughout the Western Hemisphere in an effort to discover potential Harvard teachers, either he is nearsighted, or else Harvard University is uniquely adept at training scholars. Of the 24 tenured men, eight went to Harvard College and Harvard Graduate School and nine others did their graduate work here...
...Harm's Way. As a man adept at turning big brawny books into big brawny spectaculars, Producer-Director Otto Preminger (Exodus, The Cardinal) often makes ostentatious movies, but he almost never makes dull ones. This epic based on the novel by James Bassett is among Preminger's liveliest. Its clear, unequivocal message is that World War II was fought to make the world safe for wide-screen melodrama...
This gross mistake is followed by an equally distorted view of the nature of a disarmed world. He argues that nations are growing increasingly adept at policing their internal affairs and at restraining those who would aggrandize irresponsibly. This process is, according to Millis, constantly reducing the burden that will have to be placed on the international police charged with enforcing disarmament. He perceives a civilizing element at work throughout the world, building a consensus against the use of modern weapons--a consensus which will make the international police problems easier than is frequently supposed. Millis does not foresee...