Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bratt's plane, which will be ready for flight testing two years from now, promises to be a bonanza for a large part of Swedish industry. Though the Swedish air force has traditionally acted as its own prime contractor on planes, Saab will perform that role for the Viggen and is now letting out subcontracts to 1,500 other Swedish firms. L. M. Ericsson, Sweden's aggressive manufacturer of telephone equipment, will be responsible for the Viggen's radar, Standard Radio (a Swedish subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph) will make the operations control system, and Svenska...
Tchin-Tchin is a cheery drink-up expression, but all the hero and heroine of this play have to swallow is the lees of abandonment by their mutually unfaithful spouses. As the pair of wistful rejects, Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn perform with sorcery...
...deaconesses associated with the Kaiserswerth movement still serve primarily in hospitals, but other Protestant sisters undertake almost every ministerial duty short of celebrating the communion service. In Germany, Darmstadt's Ecumenical Sisters of Mary do missionary work among the poor, perform religious plays for pilgrim audiences, run a retreat house. Organized in 1946 to serve penance for Nazi crimes against world Jewry, the sisters eat breakfast standing up in commemoration of concentration-camp routine, recite special prayers on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath. Another German sisterhood, the Casteller Ring of Schloss Schwanberg, has an intellectual apostolate: teachers...
...stimulate economic growth were Hubert H. Humphrey, one of the Senate's most conspicuous liberals, and H. Ladd Plumley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Implicit in the consensus on taxes is a recognition by liberals that Government expenditures cannot create sustainable prosperity, that individual incentives perform indispensable economic functions. President Kennedy has made that recognition explicit. Present tax rates, he said recently, "are so high as to weaken the very essence of the progress of a free society-the incentive of additional return for additional effort...
...sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football's pros are shrewder: they perform just once a week, 14 times a season, and it is often standing room only. Last year the National Football League filled 76% of the seats in its stadiums (v. big-league baseball's 34%), and this year the N.F.L. sold half its seats before the first whistle blew...