Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dressed up for the giddy era of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joy takes place on a campus that has its spiritual roots in ooze and Oz. Beyond a tiny little bridge spanning a tiny little stream, the two beautiful Young Marrieds find a tiny little dream house in which to adjust. Even their garbage is lovely, crisp and green as a garden-fresh salad. "Sometimes it's not so bad being poor, the way we're poor," says Richard...
...Continent uses the metric system, and adult Britons sometimes learn this by struggling futilely to adjust nuts scaled in centimeters on their stalled Volkswagens by using British wrenches that are built on inches. But help is on the way: the British government last week announced that over the next ten years Britain will convert to the metric system...
...second and third singles fairly well sum up the whole afternoon. Harvard could never quite adjust to the Quakers' pure power tactics. Penn Captain John Reese, who just about smacks the fuzz off the ball, took a fast set from Dave Benjamin and then hung on to take the second set, 7-5, just as Benjamin was beginning to gain momentum. The Quaker third man, Clay Hamlin, blasted serves and volleys past baseliner Clive Kileff...
...whoop up riots are essentially the same sort of men as the British consuls they are replacing. Novelist Fowler, who was a colonial officer in Asia and Africa for 30 years, allows himself only the faintest nostalgia; the best of his Africans is a fine old chief who cannot adjust to the disorder of independence and who fights more stubbornly than any Briton to preserve the old, colonial rule...
Taking the picture itself is all but foolproof. Upon being loaded, both the Kodak and Rapid cassettes automatically adjust the camera for the speed-rating of the film being used. From there, automatic electric eyes take over, set optimum combination of shutter speed and lens opening for the amount of light. If there is not enough light, pointers pop into the view finder to tell the photographer to keep his shutter closed. Instead of bulky flash attachments, most of the new automated cameras have miniature, built-in flash units that disappear when...