Word: performance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrific dearth of teachers in this country. If teaching machines could be run off assembly lines as just another gadget and someday became as common as television sets, the few teachers there are could be liberated from the more ponderous tasks of mechanical instruction they now have to perform, and the dilemma of the teacher shortage could be substantially diminished, if not wiped out entirely...
...make the idea work, the inventors had to develop a system of electric pulse motors that were able to direct a machine to perform all the intricate steps contained on the tape. Called pulse-servos, such motors have been in operation for years; the problem was that the fastest available could handle only 1,700 pulses per second, which was not enough for really sophisticated work. The great breakthrough came with the development of a super pulse-servo that could handle 6,000 pulses per second, fast enough to direct the most complex piece of milling work. To start...
...Superba. Checker Motors Corp., makers of Checker taxicabs, next month will begin production of a family-type passenger car called the Superba, which it claims will "perform like a pleasure car and take punishment like a taxicab." The new car, powered by a six-cylinder engine, will be about 198 in. long and somewhat higher and narrower than most U.S. cars, sell in the $2,500 price range...
Stars of Jazz (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Lizzie Miles at 63 can still belt them into submission with a few strokes, and Joe Yukl's sextet is in attendance to perform a gentler kind of operation on Royal Garden Bines and Basin Street Blues...
...Left to perform without the chorus, the dancers alternated "show" and serious numbers. Amy Greenfield's "Jungle Drums" dance was easily the most spectacular feat of the evening. requiring amazing subtleties of rhythm and control. And "Le Petit Mal De La Jeunesse," a portrait of teenagers today, danced by Penny Carver, Elizabeth Theiler, and Tom Glick, took the entertainment honors. The trio slid, slunk, crumpled and twitched to the beat of a jazz ensemble and Mark Mirsky's narrative...