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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Picked by the Pros | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Two for Hitachi | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plays, House Dances Cap Yale Weekend | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yacht Club Whips Coast Guard To Win Fifth Trophy of Season | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

...looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: High Imp Quotient | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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