Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a slow start, the President came out swinging for his program and especially for three legislative "imperatives": 1) defense reorganization, 2) mutual security, and 3) reciprocal trade. These are the grades Congress might give itself on demands of the President and passing the tests of Year One, Space Age...
...Gleneagles Country Club in suburban Chicago. The putt gave Venturi a birdie 3 for the 69th hole, and an eventual one-stroke victory in the Chicago Open. Pocketing $9,000 in prize money, Venturi added another chapter to golf's big story of 1958: the coming of age of a new group of young golfers who promise to dominate the game for years to come...
...whole new class of TV-age entertainers-the just-talkers. But his appeal has little in common with Steve Allen's brash sidewalk zaniness or Arthur Godfrey's somnolent saloon drone. When Paar appears on screen, there is an odd, hesitant hitch to his stride. For a split self-effacing second he is a late arrival, worried that he has blundered into the wrong party. His shy smile-he has developed one of the shiest smiles in the business-seems to ask a question: "Is this applause for me?" Then he remembers: he is really the host. Almost...
...coal seam 600 ft. under the village, a miner's torch had lighted an ancient white bone. Down in the depths Hurzeler dug farther with trembling care. Last week he ended a nine-year treasure hunt, exhumed the first complete fossil skeleton of an Oreopithecus ("mountain ape"). The age of the coal: 10 million years...
Eighteen-year-old Coed Bui Thi Oanh was one who did not survive. Voltaire and Confucius confounded her, and she failed her baccalaureate. In shame and despair, she swallowed 40 quinine pills and died. Since her death several other teen-age rots have committed suicide, and last week one enraged rot attacked his mathematics examiner in the street...