Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty to report that one mosque in Bukhara has been converted into a poolroom, not very handsome, and that Samarkand, the pivot of the old Silk Road to China, has traffic lights more or less like those on Fifth Avenue...
...watch for the Jumbos is high-scoring guard Bert Muench, who tallied 36 points in the Brown defeat and who has consistently led the squad in scoring. Muench, a 6-foot senior, can set, drive, set up plays, and has even played the pivot on occasion...
...front, Munro's big man will be Guy Vise Jr., a 6 ft. 4 in pivot from Meriden, Miss. Vise, who will probably start at center, is expected to provide rebounding strength but needs work on his shooting accuracy. Another dependable boardman will be 6 ft. 3 in. forward Frank Barry who scores well from underneath the basket and shoots with either hand. Bob Bowditch at 6 ft. 1 in. will play the other forward position...
...pretense that his lost pals were never even born, he has somehow come to believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario spins lengthily around Taylor's prospects of carrying off the chore for a slimy international slob (Martin Gabel). The issue: Will Airman Taylor permit himself to be airborne long enough to lug a trunkful of British banknotes out of a frozen sterling area? It seems an easy...
...Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt...