Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road's "... mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding..." In an age of specialization, these are the bohemian specialists in dissipation...
...spite of this act of blackest treachery, Beebe has remained the chief spokesman for a rather intriguing group of Americans who are passionately interested in trains. The Age of Steam, his latest effort in the field, is intended as a memorial to the machine largely responsible for the existence of the railfan...
Farrell has emphasized that he is retiring only because of a University regulation requiring compulsory retirement at age 65. He has already been permitted to remain a year beyond that age...
...Frank W. Jenks, 60, became president of International Harvester, succeeding Peter V. Moulder, president since May 1956, who reached Harvester's normal retirement age of 65 this week. Reserved and meticulous, Frank Jenks started with International Harvester as a clerk in Richmond in 1914, won a vice-presidency for his work bolstering time-payment sales to farmers as manager of Harvester's credit bureau, was named executive vice president when President Moulder took over. Jenks, who is also slated to succeed Chairman and Chief Executive John McCaffrey, now past retirement age, faces the task of shoring up International...
Among other weighty matters probed by Parkinson are personnel-recruitment policies (first step: "Reject everyone over 50 or under 20 plus everyone called Murphy"); retirement problems (the aging top man must be made to retire "while still able to do the work better than anyone else" or his second in command will enter "the Age of Frustration [and] will never be fit for anything else"); and the high art of spotting key people at cocktail parties ("Their arrival will be at least half an hour after the party begins" and they will rotate about the room clockwise, shunning the walls...