Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...February, 438 bit actors tried out and, after extensive testing and interviewing, four were chosen. They never had sung professionally before last spring and still can't play well enough to provide the music for their own songs. But last week their first single, "Last Train to Clarksville," reached the number one spot, according to Cashbox...
...chief food-producing states in the United States," says World Book. "Nature has been good to Minnesota. It has given the state many resources for work and play," carols Compton's. "Minnesota is a north-central state near the center of North America," states Britannica. "A train of two-wheeled carts screeched and rumbled along the dusty trail," coaxes Book of Knowledge. Britannica's brevity shows in its listing of well-known Minnesotans; it is the only book of the four that fails to list either...
...Monkees had not yet got around to singing anything, however, so Donnie Kirshner, the 32-year-old pop-rock entrepreneur (TIME, April 22), flew out to Hollywood from New York to spend two months with them. From these sessions emerged a single recording, Last Train to Clarksville, and an album called The Monkees; this week the album is first in sales in the nation, and Clarksville the second among singles...
...month extra for each child, also collect supplements if they work at an open-hearth furnace, at a high altitude, or in an old malarial zone, though malaria has seldom struck since Mussolirii drained the swamps. The Belgians get extras to cover the cost of commuting by train, and the hardy Dutch, who cycle to work, are given "bike money...
...action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time out for blather...