Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most students enter extracurricular activities for recreation, and not recognition. Most stay away from representational activities but join foreign affairs clubs, drama groups, and publications because they have an interest in these fields. Most continue to enjoy these clubs as diversion from study, and do not seek executive positions...
Rear Admiral John Hayward, 50, assistant chief of Naval Operations for Research and Development, will be promoted to vice admiral and put in the newly created post of Deputy C.N.O. for Development. "Chick" Hayward ran away from home (Great Neck, L.I.) at 15 to join the Navy, got an Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night...
...history. On the night of March 17, under cover of darkness, Tibet's Living Buddha slipped out of the Norbulingka, his summer palace outside Lhasa, and together with his mother, two sisters and a younger brother, headed south across the most forbidding mountain country in the world to join the Khamba tribesmen who had launched Tibet's revolt against Red Chinese tyranny. For 15 days the Dalai Lama and his tiny retinue traveled by foot and by mule-back, first across the Kyi Chu River, 25 miles south of Lhasa, then on up through...
...Warm Peninsula. Julie Harris as a provincial have-not wants to join the social haves in Miami. In BALTIMORE...
...tribes of the territory. Boganda dreamed of turning his country into the "Israel of Africa," and his people gladly put their backs into his ambitious land-reclamation projects. Last year restive tribes in Chad to the north and the Congo Republic, where blacks have massacred blacks, petitioned to join his country. Coming from him, talk of a United States of Latin Africa consisting not only of parts of French Africa, but also the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola, did not seem mere idle chatter...