Word: performance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet by listening to his own tape-recorded pep talks, Long is casual and easygoing. He does not go all out in workouts, eats whatever is served at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, is so relaxed in competition that he often does not bother to watch his competitors perform. A steady B student, he works in a local drugstore one night a week, takes many night classes (he is planning to become a dentist), at mealtime waits on table like any other fraternity pledge...
...Soviet Russia's masters of the mind, cultural exchange does not include much exchange for the artists who perform abroad. They are expected both to win their hosts' hosannas and return with the same dim view of the outside world as they had when they left. The formula: though Americans can be nice enough personally, their culture is starved, purposeless, oppressed, and altogether appalling...
This spectacular experiment is not scheduled, only talked about. But it should not be too difficult to perform. A powerful nuclear charge need only be blasted free of the earth and set in orbit around the sun. Since its speed will not be the same as the earth's, it will move steadily away. When it gets far enough, it can be exploded by a radio signal or a timing mechanism...
Satellites are getting more sophisticated. The first few tumbled any which way through space; now they are expected to perform all sorts of complicated maneuvers. The Air Force's Discoverer II, whose re-entry capsule came to earth embarrassingly close to northern Russia last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was as full of busy gadgets as a watch is full of works. The main purpose of its gadgetry was the seemingly simple task of keeping the satellite horizontal in relation to the surface of the earth below -a necessary step toward effective photographic reconnaissance...
Without a Hitch. In Los Angeles, the Rev. Charles Mundell was about to perform a marriage ceremony when the bridegroom stuck him up for $52, disappeared with fianc...