Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Youth Vote: In 1952 voters between the ages of 21 and 29 gave Eisenhower-Nixon 49% of their vote, upped it in 1956 to 57%. Said Gallup: this shift is significant because 8,600,000 adults have reached voting age since 1952, and more are coming fast...
...possible to turn backward the clock of nuclear discovery and development, nor to repeal the nuclear age." So declared U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. last week as he launched an important new U.S. offer in the continuing never-say-die attempt to promote workable disarmament. Specifically, the U.S. proposed that the powers agree...
...points, State Department clearance, stand-by refueling planes. For the flyers themselves, there was steak (cut into bite-size pieces), canned chicken, ice-cold milk, fruit juice, soup, freshly baked cakes, candy bars. At four or five strategic places along the route (the exact number is secret), the jet-age birds dropped down from their 40,000-ft.-plus altitude to drink in tons of fuel, delivered at prop-age altitudes by four-engined KC-97 Stratotankers,* then, with great-but wasteful-surges of power, climbed back to their more efficient heights...
...universe last week was just as substantial as it had ever been; the ground underfoot was just as firm. But for physicists who search for the inner secrets of matter, a new and tempestuous age had begun. One of their basic laws of nature had been proved not a law at all. From now on their erudite science would never be the same again...
...Only a few years ago, pro basketball was a hobo sport that smelled of low-grade locker rooms and considered itself lucky if it weaned fans away from pinball and professional wrestling. Last week's game was lively-and sellout-proof of pro basketball's coming of age...