Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford tells a press conference that there was "very persuasive evidence" that Nixon committed impeachable crimes. But he defends his "full, free and absolute" pardon of Nixon, saying it will heal America's wounds. He announces a plan of conditional amnesty for deserters and draft dodgers, requiring most to perform alternate service for two years--"earned re-entry," he calls it. He says that CIA subversion of the Allende government was in Chile's best interest, "and certainly in our best interest." He indicates such activity will continue in other countries...
...eagle signifying strength and alertness, and a compass rose representing the collection of intelligence data from all over the world. But as the cold war grew, so did the scope of the CIA'S duties. The law provided that in addition to collecting information, the CIA was "to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct." Under that directive, the CIA actively began trying to penetrate and even roll back the Bamboo and Iron Curtains, and to counter Communist influence in other countries...
Died. Lawrence V. Kelly, 46, prescient, uncompromising director and founder of the Dallas Civic Opera; of cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. One of the most influential and highly respected figures in American regional opera, Kelly, who also co-founded and directed the Lyric Theater of Chicago and the Performing Arts Foundation in Kansas City, shaped his companies to perform a repertory of unusual, rarely done works and to showcase fresh imported talent. Outrunning the Met, the quick impresario arranged the U.S. debuts of Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers and Teresa Berganza, and in 1954 brought Manhattan-born Maria...
...general reaction to the restrictions is much more apathetic. Any doctor who is willing to perform an abortion, the reasoning goes, will be willing to go through the formality of signing a piece of paper saying it is necessary, and even if some women will have to have their parents' consent to get an abortion, at least all women will not have to have their husband's consent, as in the original proposal...
...beam educational TV programs to remote regions in the U.S. and elsewhere, cost a hefty $111 million. Now engineers of a Westinghouse subsidiary, TCOM (for Tethered Communications) Inc., have devised an inexpensive alternative: a tethered balloon, held at altitudes of two or three miles, that can perform many of a satellite's functions at a bargain-basement price...