Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reversed, fortnight ago, by Denver District Court Judge Donald D. Bowman, who reinstated the award. Denver University, found the judge, paid Dean Johnston's fraternity dues and traveling expenses, expected him to attend Bar Association meetings. Ruled Judge Bowman: "The duties he was called upon to perform he did, not as William Gordon Johnston the individual, but as Dean Johnston of the law school. That there was unusual overexertion and stress and strain, both physical and mental, was clearly established...
...umpire, whose job ranks among the most demanding, the least appreciated and the loneliest in organized sport. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. Before each game, he must perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart all 550 regulations in the baseball rule book. He must not only keep high-strung athletes...
...most valuable bequest was his craftsman's passion for high mechanical quality. Mass production has made this increasingly hard to achieve-especially in complicated automatic washers. So once again, Maytag is bucking the trend with a pilot program giving each worker a more complex role to perform on the assembly line. Says one woman employee, whose job has been expanded from turning a few screws to assembling complete washer tops: "I'm proud of these tops. If I get one back that's wrong, I worry about...
...trio as to shoot craps, and the group is no longer just background music: it has become one of the top draws in Vegas. Currently at the Sahara, Mary Kaye & Co. will earn about a quarter of a million dollars in a 22-week stand this season. Also, they perform at San Francisco's Fairmont and Los Angeles' Crescendo, and have cut 14 LP albums...
Wearied by its travels, crippled by illness and injury and cumbered by European cooking, the U.S. track and field team nonetheless managed to perform handsomely as it toured across Europe last week. After a 124-111 victory over the Soviet Union in Moscow, the strong men's team moved on to face West Germany's best at Stuttgart, brought off a 120-91 win. Only the ladies-and not all of them-seemed to be having trouble; they lost to the Russians 39-68, to the Germans...