Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players. His starting line is set with Charlie Njoku and Dudley Blodget at the wings, Hugh Polk and Fred Akuffo at the insides, and Jim all at center forward. But there is a scramble for positions on the second line, esoecially at the wings. There the oss of Akin Adewole and Morgan Hudson have left the second positions wide open, and Munro will be looking for some more talent...
Coach Brune Munro has indicated his starting lineup will have a letterman at every position. Harvard's front line should provide a devastating scoring attack with Charlie Njoku and Hugh Polk on the left side, Jim Saltonstall at center forward, and Fred Akuffo and Akin Adewole on the right. This quintet accounted for 20 goals last year. Saltonstall had a remarkable sophomore season, notching ten goals--six of them in Ivy play, second best in the League. He should be even better this year...
...America, the young, the enthusiastic, the idealistic, the hopeful to learn." He perceived nonetheless that Americans can be crass, narrow-minded and dismayingly conformist. Confined to a New Orleans hospital throughout the ordeal of President Kennedy's assassination and burial, he sensed that the whole nation shared something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence." By the end of his three month visit, he had become "an addict to America...
...Pitching a tent used to be akin to struggling with an octopus. Now Moss Tents of Ann Arbor, Mich. (P.O. Box 54), has produced the Bubble Tent, which can be zipped effortlessly into place in H min. flat. Carried in an 8-ft. tube attached to the station-wagon rack, it pulls out in one move, pops open like an umbrella, stays aloft by means of fiber glass poles, and sleeps four in airy, mosquito-proof comfort. Cost...
...college dropout, he frequently talks like a tortured composite of Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan and Lord Keynes. "I am in the process of becoming," he says ?period. He boasts, with absolute seriousness, that "I have a rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business?is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth and there is no truth...