Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warmest moment Paris-born Chris Herter went to the musty Ecole Alsatienne on the Left Bank, where he was a student at age six, told the students of today in fluent French: "I see myself again as if it were yesterday, leaving for the Ecole . . . when I see little Americans going off to play baseball in the U.S. I cannot help thinking of the nice games of 'hunter's ball' that I played with my little playmates in the streets...
...Space-age hardware like Nike drove the Army into a search for skilled manpower. In "Operation Meathead" (1957-59), the Army discharged 75,000 untrainables, as a byproduct cut stockade (prison) population from 6,300 to 1,500. slashed its overall courts-martial rate 22%. Its multimillion-dollar education program in 1957-58 qualified 40,000 enlisted men for high-school diplomas, by 1962 will put 1,200 in colleges. Half of the Army officers who do not have college degrees have signed up for courses. RANGERS FOR TOUGHNESS...
...Identity, fattened a bit by age and apparent prosperity, consists of a set of poems by Lyon Phelps, Harvard Class Poet of some time back, who recently gave a reading at the Poet's Theatre sitting on a stool in the middle of a brass bedstead...
...possibility of a partial rather than an industry-wide union strike was raised by Iron Age, the industry trade publication. Relations between the union and companies, though still friendly, began to get a bit more edgy. The union contended that the steel industry mutual aid plan caused the tenseness...
Whatever the quality of Mithradates' armies, he himself was such a tough old warrior that, at the age of 68, he still could throw a javelin as well as any of his soldiers and produce from his numerous harem an annual crop of royal children. Defeat only seemed to stimulate his ambition, and in 64 B.C. he was planning to realize a stupendous fantasy-an invasion of Italy from the north, while the main Roman army hunted him in the east...