Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reached last night in Chocorua, N. H., Hoadley explained that he was five years from retirement age and that "since Leverett is to be rebuilt, it seems wise to leave the pain and pleasure of that job to my successor...
...years. He has removed about 765,000 tons of rock and still has about 5,235,000 tons to go, is five years behind his 30-year schedule. A local supporter has told Ziolkowski that at the rate he is going he will finish at about the age of 117. "You're a good man," the friend said, "but not that good." Retorts Ziolkowski: "I came out here to carve a mountain, and I'm going to get it done...
...sales: $664 million). When, after a severe heart attack, he finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive this spring, he was the last U.S. steelman still running a major company he had founded. Last week, at 81, Ernest Tener Weir died in Philadelphia of the infirmities of great age...
Touch of the Supernatural. Most of the characters in these stories are beginning to feel their age and, if they have not found religion, at least have been brushed by the supernatural. The title story deals with a former U.S. Army pilot, penniless in Paris, who refuses $25,000 to pull a job for a smuggler because of a superstitious hunch that the job would be fatal for him. When a less imaginative friend succeeds, the flyer knows that fear, and not a hunch, has dictated his refusal...
...Age of Reason, an engineer tries to dismiss a haunting dream that someone near and dear will die in an air crash on May 14; the story ends in Lady or the Tiger fashion, with the man waiting powerlessly to learn the fate of the plane that is carrying his wife and child to him-on May 14. The Kiss at Croton Falls takes a lighter view of dreams as Mrs, Mull visits companionably each night with her dead husband until he makes the mist ike of bringing a pretty redhead home with him-twice...