Word: joined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financial worries were far from over, Sammy Davis Jr. came through with a $17,800 check, Jack Lemmon promised half his salary from his next film (he has received as much as $1,000,000 for a movie), and Sidney Poitier, who donned work clothes last week to join a cleanup detail, contributed liberally...
...wells set ablaze by the retreating Ibos. At week's end, Biafran soldiers were still holding out in some sections of Port Harcourt, and the prospect was for long-drawn-out fighting. But the superior federal firepower seemed certain to prevail eventually, and then Port Harcourt would join the long string of Ibo ghost towns now occupied by the Lagos government...
...preferred by Cory Grant, 64, for his priceless epidermis. Commercially, Grant was a natural. The last of the great matinee idols, he symbolized male impeccability and the kind of ageless elegance everyone dreams of attaining. But Gary wasn't having any-until last week, when he agreed to join the board of directors of Rayette-Fabergé. Grant, who will serve as a product and corporate consultant, jumped into the fragrant fray because he sees cosmetics as a means of unifying the sexes. Says Gary: "Why should they try to separate us so? We should all just smell well...
...specific plans-shorter still on capital-for economic development. There is no dearth, however, of physical or human resources. Its technical advisers in Viet Nam have proved that Taiwan has the kind of electric power, harbor development and agricultural experts necessary for rebuilding war's ruins. Malaysia can join in the reconstruction effort with timber and cement, South Korea with textiles and fertilizer. Indonesia, potentially a major Asian supplier of oil and copper, is even now busily luring the foreign investment necessary to exploit its rich natural resources...
...Left, Author Harrington, 40, is recapitulating in dialectical terms his own crablike glide to the right in search of greater political influence. The goal, he said recently, "is to maintain your ideals without becoming irrelevant, without just sitting up on a hilltop spinning theories." To that end, he has joined the Independent Democrats on his home turf in Greenwich Village, thinks now that he made a mistake in not voting for John Kennedy in 1960. "I came to the conclusion," he admitted, "that to call upon the liberals and radicals to leave the Democrats and join the Socialists...