Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Time-is loose again, doing what he does best, teaching. In an experimental session at Wye Plantation in Queenstown, Md., he is trying to stir up high school students on the subject of Aristotle and other philosophers. "I want to do it," explains Adler, 18 months shy of his 80th birthday, "because I want to show it can be done." Adler has long believed that ancient philosophers and Great Ideas can be, and should be, taught in the average public school, though in the U.S. students usually don't get such instruction until college-if ever...
...mile mark, I was in about 80th place," Rippy said. "I tried to use my knowledge of the course and the hills to my advantage and it worked...
...stars gathered for a Victorian garden party: Maureen O'Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Fritz Weaver, Celeste Holm. But there was not a film crew in sight. The occasion? A benefit to revive the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, N. Y., an event that turned into a surprise 80th-birthday party for Local Resident Helen Hayes. Broadway's longtime First Lady bubbled over at the prospect of restoring the old theater where she and such "dear friends" as Jack Benny, Tallulah Bankhead and Beatrice Lillie once played. She was no less pleased with the day's festivities. "This party...
...salty over what he calls "agism"-discrimination against the elderly. At the birthday party in his Capitol office, the oldest member of the House of Representatives gazed around the room at the young staff members who had organized the affair. Said he: "I plan to be around for your 80th birthdays too, you know...
...cause of all the jubilation was the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who was reluctant for her husband to take the throne in the first place, but is, as the London Times declared, probably the most popular royal personage of all time. To the British she symbolizes more than the monarchy: she is the storybook grandmother, loving and merry, always ready with a Band-Aid or a bag of sweets. Reports TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo...