Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry must be ready to perform fantastic tasks. Warned Automan Hoffman: "The very toughness of the assignment makes clear the necessity of starting to plan now. When the fighting is over, ex-soldiers on street corners selling apples . . . people starving in one part of the country while food surpluses rot in another would be death rattles for private business...
...basic issue was at stake. To perform its function of directing production, management has to have not only officers but noncommissioned officers, just as much as an army does. But in most industries foremen, although they still direct production, no longer directly exercise the power to hire & fire. For this reason, apparently, NLRB last year decided that foremen are just a special grade of skilled labor and entitled to the privileges of labor...
Modern apparatus gymnastics was founded in the early 19th Century by Germany's Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. To this day the world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with Teutonic precision. Besides the apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, long horse, flying rings and balance beam), championship tournaments include rope-climbing, Indian clubs, calisthenics, tumbling...
Apparatus events are the backbone of gymnastics. But far more exciting to galleries are the tumbling events. For the sheer fun of it, contestants perform the same stunts that once kept Japanese tumblers in big-time vaudeville. The tumbler who brought down the house last week was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, dimpled, curly-headed Bonnie Nebelong. Into her minute-and-a-half performance, she packed so many spine-tingling contortions and body twists that the judges had eyes for no one else...
...Finish. Perhaps the toughest part of Spike Canham's job was to get out a newspaper in the face of the Monitor's old religious taboos against mention of such things as death, disease, disaster, crime. To Christian Scientists these are "error." The Monitor often had to perform journalistic acrobatics to print the news. Once, unable to say "dead," a Monitor writer referred to "passed-on mules...