Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountainous volcanic spine to fuel-hungry Tokyo. Last week 5-ft.-tall Shige Kawata, 75, president of the steelmaking Nippon Kokan company, watched the gas start to flow through a 208-mile pipeline that his firm built in less than a year and guarantees to be earthquake-proof. An avid sportsman who is president of the Japan Basketball Association and holds the fifth degree in judo, Kawata argues that a successful businessman must compete not for money but "for love of the game." Since 1951, aggressive competitor Kawata has quadrupled Nippon Kokan's steel production...
...came out sixth in a field of some 100 candidates for presidential appointment. At the Point, he was a good leader-manager of varsity lacrosse, superintendent of the post Sunday school, captain of his regiment and class president. He did well in history, a fact that counted later. An avid dancer, he hoofed in the annual Hundredth Night Show, loved to go out shagging with Peg at nearby Vassar...
...work with able youngsters who had given up higher education. Taking a second look, N.I.T. admits and reforms the promising. It rides them hard, and those who respond get immediate jobs in the booming aerospace industry at starting salaries of $600 to $700 a month. Some companies are so avid for N.I.T.'s products that they try to hire entire graduating classes...
...only briefly. Says a relative: "Tommy might have been at Yale a week-not even long enough to get his golf clubs unpacked." He worked briefly in the family lumber business, skippered a PT boat during World War II. A friend of the late Ernest Hemingway, Shevlin is an avid big-game hunter, polo player, deep-sea fisherman and golfer. Durie and Tom Shevlin now own a white colonial mansion across North Ocean Boulevard from the Joseph P. Kennedy estate in Palm Beach...
...Spin. Until this year, few experts rated Laver as a serious threat to Budge's lonely eminence. One of the "tennis babies" that Australia seems to breed as profusely as kangaroos, he was one of four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an avid player and a mother who sometimes skipped kitchen duties to bat tennis balls around with her brood. At 15 he quit school to play tennis fulltime under the eye of Harry Hopman, the genius of Australian tennis. His booming serve and volley are impressively hard for a little...