Word: performable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiting for someone to perform with...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Weird World of Robots" examines the mechanical slaves that will perform 21st century tasks that man cannot or should not attempt-such as working in contaminated areas of an atomic plant...
...lives on a houseboat moored in the Thames. Separated from his wife and child, mired in an unpromising literary career, he tries to find himself by casting off the paraphernalia of modern life. His boat turns out to be rot-ridden and spider-struck. Every night cats and rats perform a dance of death on his cabin roof. Worse, the free spirits whom he expected to find among other houseboat owners turn out to be frauds or escapists...
...decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by buying up one new company after another. Since then, Susskind has been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows...
...fees on orders for more than 400 shares, starting Sept. 15. Much to Wall Street's embarrassment, the SEC has shown in a month of Washington hearings that brokers generally give up most of their commissions on big block trades. The money goes instead to other brokers, who perform unrelated services for the customer, such as research or selling mutual-fund shares. As part of its rate-cutting plan, the Big Board last week endorsed a ban on all such customer-directed fee splitting-just as the SEC has long urged...