Word: 20s
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John Kennedy is the oldest trainee at Peace Corps boot camps, now operating on seven U.S. campuses, from Harvard to Berkeley. Most recruits are in their early 20s; the Kennedys know they may wash out before they ever reach the Philippines. But so may others much younger. If the Peace Corps fails, it will not be for lack of talent to choose from. At the rate of 100 a day, some 12,250 Americans have now volunteered. For brains, looks and verve, those chosen so far would rank high in any enterprise...
...China, in the middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work...
...varsity tennis, met a girl named Lydia Happer, whom he married in 1925, and graduated fourth in the class of 1922. Like many top-ranking graduates, Taylor chose the engineers-as had his boyhood idol, Robert E. Lee-and began his brilliant career. For most Army officers, the '20s and '30s were drab years of no activity and few promotions. Taylor was a lieutenant for 13 years, but he led the lively life reserved for the outstanding young officer-language study in both France and Japan, a tour as an instructor at West Point, then assignment...
From last year's inspection and a stack of notebooks on Europe that go back to 1926, Gunther extracts such conversational bits of color as the Albanians' name for their country (Shqiperia), Khrushchev's scholastic record (he was illiterate until his mid 20s), what Mr. K. and Tito have in common with Hungary's boss, Janos Kadar, and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny (all were once locksmiths). His sidelights often illuminate the mood of a country more effectively than pages of analysis. Discussing West Germany's affluence, Gunther reports slyly that an elaborate marble trough...
When Lloyd George's career faded in the '20s, it was not just that history had passed him by in the mass move of the discontented vote from liberal radicalism to trade union socialism: Lloyd George was too busy being a pasha to be a pundit or a prophet. Fame, money, wit, his bounderish bounce and white-maned, apple-cheeked handsomeness proved catnip to women, and he maintained what his son calls a "modern seraglio" at Churt, his princely estate in Surrey. On one of his increasingly rare visits to the old man's home Richard answered...