Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's history-by picketing opening-day classes at the local Timberlane High School. In Racine, Wis., School Superintendent C. Richard Nelson closed the city's 47 public schools two days after opening because teachers had decided to underline their contract demands by refusing to perform administrative duties...
...York Jesuit Joseph F. O'Rourke anticipated some sort of trouble when he went to Marlboro, Mass., recently to baptize the baby of Mrs. Carol Morreale (TIME, Sept. 2). Incensed by her advocacy of an abortion-information clinic, local priests had refused to perform the baptism, and O'Rourke stepped into the breach against orders from his immediate superior. Last week it was clear that the Jesuits took O'Rourke's disobedience much more seriously than he had expected: his New York provincial superior, the Very...
...Rourke and his superiors. Taylor stressed that he had decided on the dismissal (which had the approval of Jesuit headquarters in Rome) only after "careful review and discussion" with O'Rourke. But Father Frederick O'Connor, the superior who had originally ordered O'Rourke not to perform the baptism, wondered whether the young Jesuit had been given "ample opportunity and assistance to defend himself...
...eventually destroy each other. Though he immediately volunteered for service after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt would not forgive his earlier opposition to America's policy of helping the Allies, and he refused him a uniform. As a civilian consultant to the War Department, however, Lindbergh was able to perform valuable service in improving planes and fighting techniques, both on the assembly lines at home and on the battlefields of the South Pacific...
...crammed with 140,000 electronic components-including 122,000 transistors-40 thermostats, three tiny ovens, bottled radioactive gases, one pocket-sized chromatograph (used to identify the chemical component of the substance under study) and a small xenon lamp that can simulate sunshine. Costing $16.9 million each, the labs can perform three different life-detection experiments without any human help...