Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naming his rump party the Christian Social Union, choosing as its emblem a map of Sicily with a cross planted on its southern tip -where St. Paul is said to have planted one 2,000 years ago. And from a thousand ancient balconies he appealed skillfully to the age-old Sicilian conviction that "foreigners"-whether Saracen, Norman or mainland Italian-have only one interest in Sicily: the amount of plunder they can take out of it. "They have called me a Trojan horse," croaked Milazzo in a campaign-frazzled voice. "But I am not that. I am a pure-blooded...
...A.M.A. hewed to its traditional individual-enterprise line. Though majorities of physicians polled in several states have voted in favor of bringing doctors under compulsory social security coverage, the House of Delegates voted down a Pennsylvania resolution favoring it. Main argument: doctors who kept on practicing after the age of 65 could not collect benefits until they quit, or until 72; doctors should be able to make better personal plans for retirement...
...midst of a booming technological age, ancient crafts have managed not only to survive, but actually flourish. A prime example is France's centuries-old weaving industry, which was revitalized by a handful of dedicated artists headed by Jean Lurcat and Marcel Gromaire during the grim days of the World War II German occupation. Working in Aubusson close to the looms, and designing sketches in some 50 colors (v. 1,440 tones used by 19th century weavers), modern French tapestry designers have made the old craft into a contemporary medium...
...ruler must move in to take over from tired hands and smile-weary faces, for Hollywood panders to every man's daydream of eternal youth. The guy in the air-cooled gloom of the theater grows older every year, but his dream girl is the same age always. The surprise is not that Shirley has moved to the top, but that she has been able to do it on her own terms without cheesecake, without studio supervised romances, even without a swimming pool. It could have happened only in a new Hollywood, which has found that kookiness...
What Meets the Eye? A Book of the Month Club selection for July, The Lion is the work of a busy Frenchman named Joseph Kessel. Since the age of 20, he has managed to write 30 books, most of them based on his sightseeing. The Lion is the product of two months spent in Kenya in 1954, where he visited just such a game reserve, which was run by just such a warden, who had just such a daughter, who had just such...