Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in life, Stu manifested the luck that was to stay with him over the years. He totally escaped the eye affliction, deterioration of the retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he fell two stories to the concrete foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity...
Murphy, a career diplomat extraordinary, was retiring because 1) he had just reached retirement age of 65; 2) after serving more than 30 of his 42 years of service abroad, he had no great interest in accepting a presidential offer as Ambassador to West Germany; and 3) he had an attractive offer to work in private industry. In accepting the resignation "with deep regret," the President wrote: "I am aware of the vast contribution you have made on behalf of all of us in your efforts to advance a just and secure peace...
...cluster around the newsstands in Puerto Rico to snap up exported copies of their home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed an unsmiling man grey and haggard with age. Trujillo has lost 20 lbs. lately-whether intentionally or not is his own secret. In his 29th year as boss, the dictator has had to cut back on his old candle-burning office schedule at a time when his regime faces mounting problems...
Logistic Support. In San Miguel, N. Mex., when county officials were on the verge of closing the one-room grade school for lack of students, the hamlet's residents averted the peril by hiring a teacher with three school-age children...
Last week Britain's Family Doctor magazine opened an all-out campaign against snoring, asked all British sufferers (and their suffering spouses) to write in the answers to questions that might shed light on causes and remedies. Sample questions: At what age did the snorer begin snoring? In what position does he sleep? Does he have false teeth, or smoke, or chew...