Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single women in the U.S., the Census Bureau reported last week, but in the long run the women win out because they live longer. The bureau's statisticians explained that there are 14.3 single men (over 14 years old) for every 11.8 women, and in the 18-24 age group, the disproportion is even greater-4.2 single men to 3.1 single women. Yet. there are eight widows for every 2.3 widowers...
...world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba Dam, the Stone Age Tonga tribe still wear porcupine quills in their noses, and in Northern Rhodesia, Barotseland is regularly plagued by gruesome ritual murders. In the whole federation there are only four Negro physicians and three Negro lawyers, among 7,100,000 blacks. Ever since the federation was formed, the cry of more and more blacks...
...Micro-Path System promises to be the hottest product marketed by Topp's two founders. President Bernard F. Gira and Executive Vice President Herbert J. Peterson. After working as purchasing agents in the aircraft industry, the two joined forces in 1955 to make electronic instruments for the missile age. They turn out instruments that tell an aircraft's angle of attack, compute its Mach number electronically, time and program the firing of its rocket armament; there is even an instrument to measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios...
...Education of Henry Adams is not the best place to learn about the education of Henry Adams. The "ironic hindsights" and "note of self-mockery" that dominate that famed autobiography were, in effect, argues Author Ernest Samuels, the verbal spitballs of old age that Adams was throwing at his teacher, life. In his projected three-volume study of the querulous Boston Brahmin of which Henry...
No.Name Class Pos. Age Ht. Wt. Home 10 Lawson, Thomas C. '59 HB 21 5.10 165 Taunton, Mass. 11 Gerety, Donald C. '59 HB 20 5.10 175 Everett, Mass. 12 Cullen, Albert F., Jr. '60 HB 20 5.8 170 Newburyport, Mass. 14 Repsher, Lawrence H. '61 HB 19 5.11 170 Rochester, N. Y. 15 Deane, Robert T. '61 HB 19 5.11 155 Kansas City, Kansas 20 Johanson, Ronald J. '59 QB 20 6.0 180 Corning, N. Y. 21 Rinella, Richard A. '61 QB 19 6.2 205 Northbrook, Ill. 22 McLaughlin, Richard M. '59 QB 21 5.11 180 New Rochelle...