Word: savvyness
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Open Mind. By 1934, he was savvy enough to ask his friend Albert Einstein a prophetic question: could man unlock the atom's energy? Einstein's reply: "No, never. We are marksmen shooting at birds in the dark, and in a country where there are very few birds...
Banked Fires. The chief bond between them now is need-for Johnson plainly needs Rusk's savvy. U.S. politicians have proclaimed a month-long "moratorium" until the Johnson Administration gets oriented, and there is similar talk of a "lull" in foreign affairs. Rusk and Johnson ignore the talk, remembering...
∙ HALFBACKS: Mel Renfro, 22, Oregon, 6 ft., 195 lbs.; and Paul Warfield, 20, Ohio State, 6 ft., 178 lbs. "The days of the pony back are over," says one scout. "And by pony I mean everyone weighing much under 200 lbs. With these big defensive lines, you have to...
The Private Ear relies more on memory than magic, what playgoers remember and rue about their own first stumbling, infatuated steps toward love. "Tchaik" (Brian Bedford), a whimsically imaginative boy nicknamed for Tchaikovsky, is pathetically in earnest about classical music and a quality called "inner beauty" that is symbolized for...
Doug Jones is one of those fighters who spend ten years beating most of the best boys around without even getting the big chance. He is a yardstick fighter, a constant to measure the up-and-comers by. His near KO of Cassius finally mortalized the Louisville Lip for the...