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Word: 60th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvest. By the time Khrushchev announced his new agricultural program last month, Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King of the Dunghill | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...writer of this letter was none other than Sigmund Freud, and he sent it to famed Viennese Playwright Arthur Schnitzler on May 14, 1922, the eve of Schnitzler's 60th birthday. The letter (printed in Germany in 1955 but not previously published in the U.S.) has now been brought to light by Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Herbert I. Kupper, to make a point about Freud and his theories. It suggests, Dr. Kupper told the American Psychoanalytic Association, not only that Freud was capable of believing in the mystical concept of the Doppelgänger,* but that his teachings themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Freud's Doppelgänger | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Sarnoff insisted that black-and-white TV is slack ing off and color is "the booster charge for our fourth decade." With the kind of optimism that helped his immigrant father become one of the great U.S. success stories, Bobby Sarnoff professed to see a pleasant sight. "At our 60th anniversary convention," he said, "I expect to be talking about television signals which span the globe. My subject then will be: The World-in Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Birthday | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Looking far younger than her years, Mamie Eisenhower, surrounded by the Eisenhower clan, romped through her 60th birthday party at the White House. She happily browsed through a welter of gifts -cocktail napkins, stockings, a pair of earbobs from her namesake niece Mamie, a lifesize, schoolgirlish portrait of herself from the National Citizens for Ei senhower-Nixon. As messages poured in, Mamie Eisenhower's personal secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, bragged: "She's getting more mail than the President today!" Asked how she felt about spending another four years in the White House, Mamie, while posing for pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

When the Class of 1931 entered Harvard for its freshman year, times were going well for the College and the country. The hip flask was the byword of the day, Babe Ruth was just about to hit his 60th home run, and the gentleman 'C' was easier than ever to get. Four years later, things were different. There were apple carts on Fifth Avenue, obnoxious structures known as "houses" for upperclassmen to live in, and the Democrats had begun to show designs on the White House. But few could imagine--or cared about--such things in the future...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: The Class of '31: A Brief Look into the Past | 6/12/1956 | See Source »

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