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...time for the Harvard basketball team to sit down and have a nice long talk. Without some communication and honest discussion, it should prepare for a few more seasons which fit right into the history of Harvard basketball: non-descript, losing efforts. THE WINS Team Record Pct. Brandeis 10-14 .416 Rochester 8-15 .348 Brown 7-20 .259 B.C. 9-17 .346 B.U. 7-19 .269 Yale 7-20 .259 Cornell 8-18 .308 Columbia 8-17 .320 Total...
...camera pans around a gray, non-descript room full of chairs. Then cuts to a series of close-ups of old people, mostly women hidden beneath piles of overclothes, their faces jutting out of scarves wrapped around their heads...
...will do most of the talking; he is an organizer of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, a New York-based clerical workers' union with which Schroder is affiliated. Van Delft is an extraordinary-looking man, especially when he is sitting down. Although he is short, wears non-descript clothes--corduroy trousers, a shirt open at the neck--and is getting paunchy, he is impressive from the neck up. He has a huge, craggy head and a bushy brown beard that blends into his bushy brown swept-back hair. His eyes are deepset, big and bulging...
...Adam's attraction just begins with its Himalayan similarities. Ask any climber who knows the range well and chances are he'll describe Adams as a mountain which hikers worship: Washington is too commercial and can be reached too easily, Clay and the lesser known peaks are too non-descript. Madison and Monroe have large Appalachain Mountain Club Huts on their sides, and Jefferson is too much like the Alps. But Adams is different...
...convinced that people will laugh at almost anything Mort Sahl says. He comes out on stage in non-descript pants and a yellow cardigan sweater, and there he is:... MORT' SAHL, devastating critic of our times, about whom everyone has read so much, in Time magazine. He stands for a minute, scratches his head, gestures erratically once or twice, and then he's off, saying funny things about politics and the situation of the world. He has a marvelous stage presence, an easy stance, an endearing nervousness and an odd tone of voice, which makes otherwise pallid remarks assume...