Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wail, warning that "enemy H-bombers'' were approaching the capital as part of the fourth nationwide civil defense test, "Operation Alert 1957." Like millions of other Americans in major cities across the U.S., the President of the U.S. was ready to play his part in the nuclear-age fire drill. At 2:10 p.m., hatless, wearing a tan, double-breasted summer suit, he walked across the White House's south lawn, and for the first time boarded his new royal-blue and white Bell Ranger helicopter.* Serious of mien, the President strapped himself in the four-place...
Russian-born George Zlatovski arrived in the U.S. with his parents in 1922 at the age of twelve, settled in Duluth, Minn., earned the nickname "Trotsky" in high school because of his spouting off in defense of Red Russia. He studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he was a big pro-Communist on the campus, and he fought with the Red-sponsored Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish civil war. In 1943 he joined the U.S. Army, rose from private to lieutenant, in 1945-47 was assigned to U.S. intelligence work in Austria...
...assimilated, must be eliminated." Last week West Pointer Clarke reported that more than 4,200 misfits had been sent home for discharge, another 3,000 put through special remedial courses. But some 41,000 low-grades still burden Clarke's round-the-clock training program in an age when atomic war requires bright, trained specialists and combat troops able to think and operate in small, independent units...
Only "four to seven percent of European youth ever reach the university level," he said, as compared to almost 33 percent in America. In Switzerland, he said, those considered qualified for university work, are sent to special university preparatory schools at an age between ten and thirteen...
Campbell, however, is really outstanding. He has a fine build and has obviously received excellent training. He moves with facility and grace, and his leg work is superb. He is as fine a dancer of his age as I have ever seen. I understand he is about to tour Europe with a young ballet company; he merits watching when he gets back to New York, for he has the makings of a true danseur noble...