Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, the Kenyon student continued, Harrison's team was 25-3 and often packed as many as 2000 fans into the 1800-seat gymnasium. Harrison advocates a fast-break offense: his most recent team scored more than 100 points 11 times, averaging 98.6 points per game. Kenyon ranked 19th among the nation's small colleges last year...
...Celtics' final victory was as complete as it was effortless: the old pros beat the young pretenders at their own game. A fast-breaking team that depends heavily on the accurate shooting of its "hot hands," Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, the Lakers were both outrun and outshot. Baylor scored 28 points and West accounted for 22, but Boston's Havlicek dropped in 40 and Howell hit for 30. The Celtics opened up a 70-50 half-time lead, and after that the Lakers never really came close. One big reason: 6-ft. 10-in. Center Russell...
...style since the Industrial Revolution to integrate every phase of design, its florid, free-flowing lines ornamented buildings and posters, park benches and Metro stations, Tiffany glass and Liberty silks. Yet few styles have had a shorter life. It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914. With the advent of the machined precision of the 1920s Bauhaus modernism, handcrafted art nouveau became an object of ridicule...
Equipped with bloated rear tires, it rolls as easily over beaches as a dune buggy; wearing snow tires, it can roam freely on backwoods trails as a hunting vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000). But where do they come from? Only when the car starts is its genealogy revealed: beneath the skin beats the shrill, short-stroke engine of the lowly Volkswagen...
...worth a total of $15 million, are now on order, and production is sold out well into 1969. With 800 workers straining to increase the Islander's one-a-week rate, Britten-Norman Co-Founder Desmond Norman's main concern is to find "ways to build them fast enough...