Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rosen got on the trail among the Mabaan, a primitive tribe in a remote part of the southeast Sudan who eat practically no meat or saturated fat and have low cholesterol and blood-pressure levels even in their 70s. They are a quiet people, but that alone did not explain why their hearing is amazingly sharp, especially for frequencies as high as 12,000 cycles per second-about the upper limit for an adult Western man. Equally significant, said Dr. Rosen, the Mabaan have no pronounced hearing loss at 4,000 c.p.s., which is particularly associated with loss of elasticity...
Despite their vaunted hang-ups, Yale's Kenneth Keniston, 36, a Rhodes scholar who has concentrated on student psychology, concludes that most of today's college students are a dedicated group of "professionalists." In the meritocracy of the '60s and '70s, he says, "no young man can hope simply to repeat the life pattern of his father; talent must be continually improved." According to Keniston, only about one student in ten deviates from the spartan code of professionalism. "Few of these young men and women have any doubt that they will one day be part...
Julia was lucky enough to have for a teacher Master Chef Max Bugnard, then in his 70s, who had worked under Escoffier in London, had run his own restaurant in Brussels. "I absolutely adored him," she confesses. Classes ran from 7 to 9:30 a.m.; in the afternoon she attended a little cooking theater manned by some of the top pátissiers in Paris. "Unlike at Smith College, I became very friendly with my teachers," Julia says, and the maitres responded in kind. "Since then," she says brightly, "my whole life has been cooking...
...Descending toward low-lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been only in the 70s or 80s at the time. During its precipitate plunge toward the coast, the Santa Ana loses much of its remaining moisture, sometimes bringing Los Angeles humidity readings down...
...these, as well as about two dozen other varieties of tropical fish, are named for a burly, sometimes surly, businessman-scientist named Herbert R. Axelrod. At 39, Dr. Axelrod has been the supreme sage on tropical fish for so long that many people imagine he is in his 70s. As the largest breeder and seller of tropical fish in the world, he has amassed a personal fortune that makes him several times a millionaire...