Word: heights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's lack of height creates two difficulties: rebounding and guarding against opponents' big men. Wilson frets about rebounding, but actually it shouldn't be too bad. Gallagher, who averaged 15.6 points per game for the freshmen, is tough on the boards -- why, he once out-rebounded UCLA's Lew Alcindor...
...jelly doughnuts, her high good spirits, and her practical jokes (painting the John seats in Hubbard House red and dangling tom-toms in the wind outside a faculty member's window). Her dreams of glory as a star basketball center were dashed when, after one look at her height, Smith decided that she had an unfair advantage over her college mates, changed the intramural rules so that the ball was thrown in from the side. With vague hopes of becoming a novelist and a ¶average, she graduated...
...safety of its gas tanks in actual crash tests, "because with a production of only 50 cars a day, one car represents a tremendous value." Volkswagen fears that the famous beetle will be in for an untoward face lifting if its bumpers must be raised to a standard height to match the big cars from Detroit; the company wants to bolt on bumper guards instead...
...comic horrors of the journey through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow-up heads. They proceed to demolish everything in he room, and at the height of the carnage they scrawl foot-high obscenities on the walls, some never before presented on the U.S. stage. It is an allegory on U.S. inner violence, a sign that Americans hate the world they have made...
...during the rest of the year, with other, less controversial speakers. The seminars in which public figures and students exchange views off-the-record will still be the heart of the program. But the Institute will have a chance to experiment, to involve more undergraduates. It would be the height of foolishness not to take...