Word: propped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda as a prop. Beatty fastened himself to her like a hyperthyroid lamprey, ignoring cries of "Cut!" "Stop!" and "That's enough, that's enough!" winning Logan's unqualified admiration. "This boy," says Logan, "is the sexiest thing around...
...advise" the British on governing Nyasaland's 9,000 Europeans, 12,000 Asians and 2,780,000 Africans. Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, who had helped jail Banda two years ago on the ground that a "massacre" of whites was being planned, flew in to help prop up his United Federal Party. Welensky made little effort to sway the 100,000 Africans whose literacy and income qualified them to vote in the "lower roll." Instead, he directed his appeal to the Asians, who were combined with the Europeans in the "upper roll." Cocky Dr. Banda gave Welensky...
...father's mantle a little heavy. In an hour-long interview with a New York Times correspondent last week, Ramfis pleaded for a resumption of U.S. diplomatic relations, spoke gloomily of the threat of a full-scale revolt, possibly within his own armed forces, unless other nations prop him up. Without their "moral support," he said, "there will develop here a problem worse than in Cuba." Ramfis also insisted that he has no intention of running for President next May, and added that as far as he knows none of his relatives plan to run either...
...defenses-by calling up an unannounced number of reserve squadrons flying C-124s, and Air National Guard squadrons equipped with C-97s. In addition, the Air Force will keep in service some C-118s that were scheduled for deactivation. By squeezing more mileage out of these aging, prop-driven planes, the Air Force will boost its airlift capability by 25%, will be able to fly two divisions to Europe in about two weeks. Looking ahead, the Air Force will buy more Lockheed C-130 transports, order additional machine tools so that production of the turboprop, 360-m.p.h. C-130s...
This is not yclept Olde English but New English-the latest British prop for tots just learning to read. Britain is worried that 30% of its seven-year-olds still cannot read after two years of school; one-quarter of its 15-year-olds are semiliterate; and 5% cannot read at all. On the theory that one facet of the problem is the exception-ridden English alphabet, 1,000 first-graders in 24 schools next fall will tackle reading with a strictly phonetic alphabet. If successful, it may revolutionize ingish...