Word: performances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain, beset by balance-of-payments problems of its own, would gladly find excuses to pull back its Rhine army; already the London Daily Express advises its readers that if the U.S. can swiftly fly divisions across the Atlantic, it would be all the easier for Britain to perform the same stunt across the Channel...
...recurring still lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations of Modern...
...Nothing to It." Then it was time for the tricks-the beautiful feints and cuts that only halfbacks are supposed to perform. With Cleveland on the Giant 32, Quarterback Frank Ryan called, "Option seven left." The snap, the pitchout, and Jimmy Brown was off, barreling through the left side of the Giants' line. Three Giants had him trapped at the 22. They rushed in. But Jimmy was gone. In one of those incredible flashes of grace that light up professional football, the huge man had pirouetted nearly 180° and was sprinting across the field to his right, looking...
Rewards & Penalties. The Pentagon, after months of experimenting with various incentive contracts, in January will begin a system that will evaluate and mathematically rate the way defense companies perform on all noncompetitive contracts. Such contracts cover 60% of defense spending, and all the big-ticket hardware from Nike to Nautilus. The new system, devised by McNamara's deputy assistant, Graeme C. Bannerman, 53, will award extra profits to a contractor who stays within his bid (contractors now frequently run well over bids), delivers on time, finances the job without the help of Government money, contributes his own technology...
...company. The Pentagon says that one unnamed but efficient U.S. firm, in a test run of the new system, increased its gross profit from $805,000 to $960,000 on a contract for missile parts. But the system also includes, as well as increased rewards, penalties for failure to perform that could drive weak companies out of the defense business...