Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orchestra is that a third of its players are fresh out of conservatories. The youngest is 18, and the group has played together no more than 30 hours. But Stokowski has an almost uncanny way of making instrumentalists play better than their best; he is as adept as ever at juggling his seating arrangements to produce the lush orchestral effects that are now so easily recognized as the Stokowski Sound...
GUARDS: Jack Cvercko, 21, Northwestern; 6 ft. 1 in., 235 lbs. Ed Budde, 22, Michigan State; 6 ft. 4 in., 247 lbs. Both Cvercko and Budde are fast and maneuverable, equally adept at dropping back to protect a passer or pulling out to run interference for end sweeps. Unlike most college guards, they also have the size to make the pros. "We don't pay much attention to college guards," admits one scout. "Usually, we take tackles and make guards out of them...
Hitachi, Ltd., the Japanese electrical giant that is equally adept at making tiny transistor radios and huge hydroelectric generators, last week gave the U.S. electrical industry a stinging lesson in how to get U.S. Government contracts. Hitachi won a $612,659 contract to build two 4,500-h.p. hydraulic turbines for the Interior Department's Blue Mesa power plant in Colorado, and another $3,221,813 contract to supply eight pump turbines for a federal reclamation project in California's San Joaquin valley. It won the awards simply because its bids ranged from 5% to 41% lower than...
Kirkland's dance goes on at 8:15 p.m., with music from "The Blue Notes," a group adept at slow music and twists. The ubiquitous Krockodiloes will appear at intermission, paired as at Lowell with the Dukesmen. The cost...
Sailing on the Thames River in New London, Conn., the Crimson foursome edged the Academy by identical scores of 301/4-30 in the first two of the best four out of seven series. By the time the third race began, the wind had died down completely. The cadets were more adept at inching their crafts forward in the still air and therefore won that race, 351/4-25...