Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman film set, Actress Rita Gam had a visitor. "At last here's a man I can ask to my apartment without making my husband the least bit jealous," said Rita, in a statement not exactly calculated to flatter big (a gefilte 198½ lbs.), bagel-eyed Harry Golden, 57, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and publisher of the Carolina Israelite. Back in Manhattan, Rita's husband, Viking Press Executive Tom Guinzburg, tossed in his own 2?, said: "We're all good Israelis...
...contributed heavily (at least $12 million) to research in mental retardation. Last week he made another gift. The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Foundation (named for a naval aviator son who was killed in World War II) announced a $1,000,000 donation to Massachusetts General Hospital to set up and maintain a laboratory for research in diseases of the nervous system in infants and children. Principal neurological symptoms to be studied: mental retardation, cerebral palsy and epilepsy, which afflict some 7,000,000 people...
...associated with the life of the wicked in their part of Sheol. Jesus, says Life and Death, used this as a figure of speech in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, and he was not threatening his hearers with fearful torment so much as reminding them that life is set within a divine order in which man reaps the harvest of his deeds. "We have no right," says the committee, "on the basis of this parable, to go further than this and interpret Hell as the place of everlasting fiery torment...
...much and more. One out of ten rural schools in England is still lit by gas lamps; science facilities are woefully inadequate. After 15 years of work, teachers get a maximum salary of $2,800. Even more vexing is that unexpected injustice, the dreaded "eleven-plus" exam, which was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into secondary schools geared to their abilities...
...Pattern. With discontent so widespread, many a community has set up comprehensive schools that lump grammar, technical and secondary modern schools under one roof with as many as 1,000 students. The new schools (about 90 so far) remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school. They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary...