Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves in labor-cost savings in as little as two years. For some applications, it is more economical to rent. One Unimation rent-a-robot plan costs the user $2.70 per hour for the first 500 hours and $1.70 thereafter. Moreover, notes Company Vice Chairman Norman I. Schafler, the tireless robots "take no lunches or coffee breaks and do not care about working more than one shift...
...voice with a now-familiar accent. "At 1 a.m.?" said Gorey. "Of course." Said Kennedy: "Join me anyway." Gorey did. When he crawled out of bed early next morning, the first person he saw was Bobby, briskly walking his dog Freckles. That exercise was cut short when the tireless candidate joined a game of touch football. "Sometimes," says Gorey wistfully, "he goes to bed early like other mortals...
...Lester Pearson, 70, announced his plans to retire after five years in office, no fewer than 20 candidates went after his job, including eight Cabinet ministers. Trudeau was only one of several strong contenders (TIME, Feb. 16), but he quickly drew ahead of the field. After waging a tireless cross-country campaign, he came to last week's Liberal Party convention in Ottawa as a front runner. At week's end Trudeau was elected party leader on the fourth ballot by a vote of 1,203 to 954 over the nearer of his two main opponents. Thus...
...Green. The week did produce one real shock when Italy's 27-year-old Franco Nones became the first person other than a Scandinavian or Russian ever to win an Olympic cross-country ski race. A wiry customs agent from Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special green...
...Music Department. Pianist, teacher, composer, conductor, he seems to be in constant metamorphosis. As contemporary composer, Kirchner has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for a work that combines sounds produced electronically with those of a string quartet; as teacher of courses for music concentrators, he is tireless in his efforts to spread the gospel according to Schoenberg. Yet Friday night there he was, conducting the Cantata Singers and an ensemble of Boston-area professionals in a program consisting solely of music by J. S. Bach...