Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aware of the risks, NASA has insisted that Astronaut Bassett remain attached to Gemini 9 by a 200-ft. nylon tether. If both Bassett and AMU perform satisfactorily, however, the astronaut who leaves Gemini 12 in an AMU may well be allowed to sever his last connection with the mother ship and strike out into empty space...
...goes rotten, the others won't." Another clear lesson to many experts is that vast, interlocking grids need to be policed more closely. Under existing law, the Federal Power Commission is empowered only to regulate interstate wholesale electric-power rates, issue permits and licenses for hydroelectric power plants, and perform other bookkeeping chores. The power companies themselves decide what lines will be linked together...
Anything Handy. Offstage, Ghiaurov behaves like a kind of Bulgarian Jackie Gleason, mugging, joking, erupting into great rumbling gales of ho-ho-ho laugh ter. At parties, given a few drinks, he will invariably perform on any instrument that is handy - flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, harmonica, violin, all of which he learned to play as a child in Bulgaria. Son of a farm hand, he was raised in Velingrad, a mineral-bath resort high in the Rhodope Mountains. As a teenager, Ghiaurov had no interest in singing, gained fame in local circles as an actor and star athlete with...
Samborski did allow the band to perform one routine from the original program. The band formed an Oedipal mask. The announcer added: "After reading Freud, the band has realized that the annual return of alumni to their alms ma- ter is symptomatic of a complex usually associated with a Greek tragic hero." Concluding the show, the band formed a comic mask and played "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear...
There is, however, no one person who can do all that Davis does, and nothing, outside of a cyclotron, that can perform with his limitless vigor. While he has been appearing on Broadway in Golden Boy, he has also found time to campaign for John Lindsay for mayor of New York, propel his autobiography, Yes I Can, to the bestseller list, do guest shots on the Johnny Carson program, tape three TV specials, and make plans to shoot a full-length film, Adam, this winter. In his spare time, he netted a million-dollar deal for four two-week nightclub...