Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your recent news treatment of Mr. Eisenhower is said by some wags to be roughly equivalent to the College of Cardinals criticizing the Pope. If being 67 years old is what is slowing down the President, then I heartily wish TIME were twice its present age...
...over-why not realize we are in the Sputnik Age? No wonder the Russians are ahead...
...thigh-slinging Crooner Elvis Presley made his way from Hollywood to the family home near Memphis to wait out his Army summons, Pollster Eugene Gilbert, a specialist in probing teen-age minds (TIME, Aug. 13, 1956), announced-to no one's surprise-that Pelvis fans, rated against the Como-Boone-Sinatra crowd, are all shook up indeed. Researcher Gilbert's findings: in school, most Presleyans don't give a twang for getting good grades. Average grade for the Elvis lover is C; for the Booneite, B or better. Thirty percent of ardent rock 'n' rollers...
...ignore the Amish boycott of high schools, or make senseless obeisance to the law's letter by letting Amish schoolchildren repeat the eighth grade over and over. But by last week in prosperous, rural Wayne county (pop. 70,000, including some 3,000 Amish, 800 of them school-age children) the conflict between the sheltering religion and a school system tightening its standards had passed beyond easy tolerance...
...School Lie. Leonhard finally came of age in what was surely the world's weirdest school. Even its name was a lie. The No. 101 Technical School for Agricultural Economy at Kushnarenkovo in the Ural region was not what it seemed to be-the boys would never cheer for Good Old Ag. Tech. It was a front name for a Comintern school, training foreign Communists to take over in their old homelands when the Russians won the war. The first odd thing about Tom Red's schooldays was that the hero had to change his name (he chose...