Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duty to Perform. Murphy realized that he had been handed a legal riddle. No longer a military prisoner, Ashe was not eligible for a federal writ of habeas corpus. And to make matters worse, Article 76 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that properly reviewed courts-martial are "final and conclusive," binding on all civilian courts. In an effort to bypass Article 76, Murphy argued that Ashe's court-martial was void from the start. In Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed...
...annual concerto contest will be held tonight at 8:30 p.m., in Paine Hall. The winner will perform in the March concert given by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
Short Haul. Athletes suddenly airlifted from low to high altitude can perform as well as usual in brief events that require only short bursts of maximum exertion. "A trained athlete can run the 100 meters in ten seconds practically without breathing," explains Dr. Daniel F. Hanley of Bowdoin College, chief of the U.S. medical team at the Little Olympics. "You just can't build up any oxygen debt* in ten seconds. And there's no problem at 200 meters or even...
Viva Maria! gives Brigitte Bardot one of the best roles of her career and Jeanne Moreau one of her worst. Fortunately, Moreau treats the handicap lightly, as if she were taking up tent-show theatricals just for the hell of it. Together, the two co-stars perform miracles of wit, charm and camera-wise witchery in this jaunty but slipshod farce written and directed by France's Louis Malle...
...much-decorated bomber pilot (Midway, Tokyo) who took over TAC at the height of the Berlin Wall crisis, turned it from a relatively small outfit into a major arm of U.S. airpower with 1,400 jet fighters, its own tankers and transports, and the ability to perform any tactical mission from the 1964 Congo missionary rescue to ground support in Viet Nam; of cancer; at Homestead Air Force Base...