Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Richards' Baltimore Orioles have plenty-along with a sprinkling of veterans like 38-year-old Outfielder Gene Woodling (.282) and 37-year-old Relief Pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm (10-8). Richards, a lean, bronzed Texan right out of High Noon, leaves the veterans alone (as long as they perform), spends so much time with his kids that he is sometimes accused of overmanaging. "Richards has more patience with his players than any manager around," says Coach Lum Harris, who, as player and coach, has been with Richards for most of 13 years. ''He never raises his voice...
...successful clubs vary widely in the services they perform, the customers they serve. Washington's Services Unlimited will supply bartenders for diplomats but not baby sitters or liquor. Long Island's Allied lists some 250 regular chores-plus 150 special services, such as entertaining at parties. One of the cheeriest jobs was performed by a tree surgeon for Chicago's National Home Owners Club. Called to "fix a tree," he was confronted with a 14-ft. Christmas tree that needed decorating. He did a glad...
Millions of people have watched Echo, the U.S. balloon satellite, as it crosses the sky. And most of them have noticed that it twinkles like a star and also brightens and dims slowly in a way that no star does. Why does it perform in this odd fashion? Last week the explanation came from Dr. Leonard Jaffe of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Echo's quick twinkling, said Jaffe, is caused by the same atmospheric irregularities that make stars wink. Some of its slower dimming may be due to thin patches of clouds, invisible at night-but most...
...sunlight, or drawn together by the Mylar's "memory" of the way it was folded in the launching rocket. But a flattish or crumpled shape may continue to serve for years as a good radio reflector, which is the basic job that Echo was sent up to perform...
...sometimes sighted but never hooked, Italy's Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli has a reputation as one of the world's best-and most eccentric-pianists, even though he remains elusive to both critics and audiences. Rated as Italy's No. i keyboard artist, Michelangeli seldom surfaces to perform, yet keeps the waters of controversy thrashing. Some call him great; others regard his style as too light and chilly...