Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday, and ABC for 30 hours beginning at noon-to report, contemplate and analyze the space epic. To fill the hours the networks pulled out all the stops and scheduled an impressive array of names. ABC commissioned Duke Ellington to write and perform a piece of music, Moon Maiden. The network also 1) lined up Steve Allen to sit down at a piano and discourse on the moon and romance in popular music, 2) called together a panel of scientists and science-fiction writers including Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and John Pierce...
...Their Mercy. Complaining consumers are the victims of a classic economy of scarcity, which enables contractors and repairmen to charge what they please and get away with it. The need for their services is enormous because few homeowners can perform any complex repair jobs themselves. Construction unions make sure that wages stay high by keeping the supply of craftsmen inadequate to meet the demand In the Oakland, Calif , area, the number of union plumbers, currently 900, is actually shrinking because the union is training only ten apprentices this year. Anachronistic spread-the-work rules prevent the most efficient...
...pressure to perform well in business looms ever larger as a reason why the life expectancy of males in the U.S. is only 66.7 years-five years less than in Sweden, and appreciably less than in such countries as Japan, Czechoslovakia and Israel. Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. ranks low in longevity-24th among countries that keep statistics. The male life expectancy rate has not risen significantly in the U.S. since the 1940s...
...must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best besides titillate, is educates. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex. Pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...
...fourth straight time, and last Tuesday night walked away from the U.S. Pro Championships at Longwood with his fifth title in six years. While many professional athletes derive their charisma primarily from their personalities, Laver proved once again at Longwood that his springs solely from the magic he can perform with a wooden racquet. Every professional tennis player has perfected at least one aspect of the game which he can exploit with devastating effects. Rosewall has his overhead slam and a deadly backhand. Gonzales covers the court beautifully and groundstrokes well. Holmberg combines a feline anticipation with accurate placements shots...