Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...R.P.M. RECORDS are being slashed in price to get bigger share of booming teen-age market for inexpensive disks. RCA Victor will spend $1,000,000 in 1957 for ads to plug 45s, has cut album prices up to 40%. RCA and top rival Columbia will price individual extended-play 45s at $1.29, down from...
...Bronze Age Lumbago. A resort town ever since Bronze Age lumbago sufferers took its waters 3,000 years ago, St. Moritz' modern beginnings date back just a century ago to the day in 1856 when Innkeeper Johannes Badrutt bought the little Kulm Hotel. Johannes was modestly prospering on summer trade when one autumn he wagered four departing British guests that they could stroll around St. Moritz in midwinter without overcoats. That winter the four struggled upland through the snow, arrived in St. Moritz to find the sun so warm that Johannes was waiting in his shirtsleeves...
...constitutional amendment to lower the Massachusetts voting age to 18 has recently been proposed by State Representative Alexander J. Cella '51, former Harvard teaching fellow and government lecturer. The bill is presently before a statehouse committee for consideration...
Cella is interested in a lower voting age because he feels "people 18-21 are as capable and intelligent as many of those that are older. They seem to take political questions quite seriously. If they had the chance to vote, they would study the political situation carefully, as many voting for the first time do today...
...Representative said that passage of the bill would help solve inadequate civics preparation at the high school level. If the voting age were lowered to 18, schools would be more careful to prepare their students in government and history...