Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operator, photographic model. She says that she never really wanted to pay the price that Hollywood demands for stardom ("You become everybody's personal property''), but by 1946 she was there, like a thousand others, sitting around on sets, earning little more than the right to join the extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York to look for work on TV. Champion was playing on Broadway...
...attack the teacher shortage, the Ford Foundation has spent another $15.6 million on two vibrant experiments: "Intern" college-student teachers and "teaching teams." By practicing in nearby schools, interns get enough credit to skip a tedious year of postgraduate study. And often they join teaching teams (being tried in Baltimore this year) that could solve a big problem: the discouraging salary ceiling that a teacher reaches after 15 years. Some teams have equally ranked specialists. Most have a "master" teacher who gives the main presentation, then turns over the class to several journeymen, apprentices and clerical aides. The master (salary...
...regular doses of poison and keeping eternal vigilance, or gently pulling crab grass out by the roots. They are putting their hopes in new, specialized chemicals that have been developed to combat the weed. Many a homeowner has found the most comfortable way to beat crab grass is to join it. Says Washington Building Manager Mrs. Adeline Watson: "I'm sick of fighting. I decided to grow just crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago's National Chemical & Manufacturing...
Hamstrung by the arrest of their chiefs and also by the defection of the Praja-Socialists, who used to join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
Other agents have set up "bachelor tours" (which many married couples join), tours that swing through great museums or restaurants, great beaches or battlefronts. Three years ago Camera Bug Eric L. Ergenbright of North Hollywood opened his own agency, this year is running 30 camera tours-in Japan, South America and elsewhere-with live models and expert photographer-guides. One agency set up a religious tour of Israel, complete with kosher food, tossed in a surprising fringe benefit: a special audience with Pope John XXIII on the way back...