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Word: performances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such violations, Hershey said, are a failure to perform the duties required under the Selective Service Act which permits draft boards to revoke deferments and put the violator at the head of the draft list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hershey Backs Induction For Draft Troublemakers | 11/9/1967 | See Source »

...Berkeley, no other Greek-American paper has aggressively opposed the junta. An amazing and saddening phenomenon has been the mellowing, almost warm, attitude of Greek-American newspapers towards the junta, not to mention their respect for the King. With this gaping hole in communication, The Hellenic-American has to perform several functions: pressure the Administration, report otherwise unattainable news from Greece, provide in-depth analyses of diplomatic pressures, and link activities of Greeks...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: The Hellenic-American | 10/25/1967 | See Source »

...discipline: the kids had to keep up with their studies, practice two hours daily to build up a repertory of 500 rock 'n' roll, folk, country and pop songs, and key their lives to the parental dictum, "If we can't eat it, play it or perform with it, we can't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Mama, Papa & the Kids | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...time the idea became more familiar in domestic matters. It is pleasant to hear the New Left declare that the white liberal is the true enemy because it is he who keeps the present system going by limiting its excesses, but it is more the informed conservatives who perform that function--the Robert Tafts of the nation--and at the present juncture they are needed...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Myths and Demands of Liberal Politics | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

...Guild of Variety Artists, are demanding a 40% raise in salary over the next three years; the management is offering only a 15% hike. A first-year Rockette currently makes $99 a week, or $26 less than the lowest-paid Music Hall stagehand. That breaks down to $4.12 a performance or roughly 20 a kick. The dancers must rehearse 120 hours without pay for the nine new extravaganzas mounted every year at the Music Hall, perform four shows daily for 21 consecutive days followed by six days off. Even then they are on call as replacements, and friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chorus Girls: For 2 Cents a Kick | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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