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Word: dynamos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower, and Bye Bye Birdie, a sprightly spoof of an Elvis-type monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 20, 1961 | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Words. Because she was a pacifist, Henrietta Szold herself at first could not get into British-mandated Palestine. She at last persuaded Viscount Samuel, the newly named High Commissioner, to use his influence. Once in, she stayed there most of her remaining 25 years, and proved herself an organization dynamo. In the years from 1922 through 1931, Hadassah's volunteer medical services spent more money ($445,000 to $655,000 a year) than the mandate government's Health Department. They opened scores of hospitals, clinics and mother-and-child welfare stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Esther's Name | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Personality & Philosophy. An indefatigable, apple-cheeked dynamo (he regularly consumes vitamin pills), Humphrey breathes, eats and lives politics. One of his party's most adroit campaigners, he is the poor folks' avowed

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: MAN FROM MINNESOTA | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...system four years ago by WKNO-TV in Memphis. Results were so impressive (2,000 illiterates learned to read and write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple crafts to mountain people. Last year Behrman raised $16,000 to get WKNO's 98 lessons kinescoped, ran them over Charlotte's WBTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Assault | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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