Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concentration of power in Washington, which is fast nullifying our constitutional division of governmental responsibility. Most of those who oppose this trend ignorantly or negatively refuse to recognize that to stop it, obsolete state constitutions and local governmental charters must be modernized so that state and local governments can perform their constitutional functions effectively...
...main reason was simply that the Vietnamese soldiers had been in steady action for more than a year with hardly a break. Even with the artillery and air support that was lacking at critical moments in Viet An, troops so weary could hardly be expected to perform with skill in the grinding day-in-day-out war. The only sure cure for battle fatigue is a transfusion of well-rested, eager combat troops like the 6,800 U.S. marines currently patrolling Danang airbase. Though the marines last week were finally blooded in their first real firefight with the Communists, they...
Nureyev will be afforded better opportunities to display his virtuosity in La Bayadere and Swan Lake, though to bolster box-office sales the Royal Ballet refuses to announce which nights he will perform. The crush for tickets has been so great that every performance was virtually sold out before the company arrived. Scalpers are having a field day, and box-office lines along the tour route stretch from Baltimore to Seattle...
...lean, dry-humored U.S. Marine Corps regular, has been in Viet Nam for 10½ months as adviser to a Vietnamese marine batallion. He has no command capacity whatever. All he can do os offer suggestions when and if they are solicited by his Vietnamese "counterpart." To perform effectively, the adviser must earn the trust and friendship of his Vietnamese opposite number- a process that often takes weeks, and sometimes is never achieved. Whenever an American adviser tries to force his views on a Vietnamese commander, he is in for trouble. Thus one overzealous adviser was told by a Vietnamese...
...John Kirklin, a specialist in open surgery, will examine Yovicsin, will probably perform an open-heart to correct the murmur...