Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatize the way the new houseboats perform, Miami's Thunderbird Products Corp. entered one of its 40-ft. Drift-R-Cruz houseboats in the last Bahamas 500, one of the world's toughest ocean races. Despite 8-ft. seas and 25-knot winds, the Drift-R-Cruz finished the race at Freeport, one of only 16 boats in a starting field of 63 to do so. Another Drift-R-Cruz traveled along the inland waterways all the way from St. Petersburg, Fla., to Montreal's Expo 67 and then across the Great Lakes to Oshkosh...
Because there is only one anti-draft office, and so much anti-draft opinion, an enormous speaking calendar is a patriotic duty that BDRG must perform. Neil Roberston, Hunt, Ferber, Hector, and Grizzard meet most of the requests for speakers on the draft...
...Cantata Singers are a good example of how a small, well-trained chorus can have fuller body and greater impact than one larger but less precisely controlled. Like all human performers, the group had its moments of weakness: sloppy ensemble, faulty intonation, a tendency (especially among the men) to expend force at the beginning of a phrase and then be unable to carry it through to the end. But Bach's voice writing, though beautiful, is quite impossible to perform, and the group has to be admired for its accomplishment. The performance was neither too fussily "authentic" nor embarrassingly emotive...
...during the late 1966 decline and the early 1967 rise: there are uncertainties about military and monetary problems abroad, about inflation and taxes and urban problems at home. And the economy continues to climb. As the market responds to tips and touts with short-term flutters, it continues to perform over the longer term with a certain consistency. If history is any guide, stocks will rise and fall along with three fundamental factors: 1) the overall health of the economy, 2) the state of corporate profits, and 3) the availability and cost of money. Investors who have faith that...
...spite of its shortcomings, Beyond Belief is bound to attract attention and readers. And it does perform at least one service. For the murder buff and the amateur psychiatrist, it supplies the details of a spectacular crime, saving them the cumbersome job of digging into the court files or old newspaper clippings...