Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Ebbets Field, breeding ground of some of the wackiest baseball in the world, had seldom seen such a collection of antique athletes. When the New York Yankees invaded Brooklyn to touch off the World Series last week, the Dodger clubhouse seemed to creak with age. There was portly Catcher Campanella, noticeably slowing down at 34, the bumps and bruises and broken bones of two decades of baseball hurting more than he liked to admit. There was that cantankerous infielder, Jackie Robinson, 37 and thick in the middle, but still a scrapper...
...once-human being, thus controlled, would be the cheapest of machines to create and operate. The cost of building even a simple robot, like the Westinghouse mechanical man, is probably ten times that of bearing and raising a child to the age...
Imitation. Born in Poland and taken to New York at the age of two, Analyst Lubell did not turn to his specialty until he had already carved out a career as newsman, free-lance magazine writer and Government planner. In World War II he served as right-hand man to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who credited him with "doing all the work" on the survey that formed national policy on rubber production. In 1948 the Saturday Evening Post assigned him to do a post-mortem on the election upset. The result led him to a Guggenheim fellowship that financed...
...first "magazine of world astronautics" is whooshing off the presses this week. Its title: Missiles and Rockets. As the latest in a fleet of eight air-age trade journals launched by American Aviation's chubby, ruddy Editor-Publisher Wayne Parrish, 49, the magazine will take off with a burst of specialized stories; e.g., a roundup on Russian rocket development, a story of the Army's rush to beat the Navy into space with a satellite...
...Route," from all points of the compass. "I was looking at myself the other day." said he. "I was wearing an English hat and shoes, a Peruvian shirt, an Italian tie, and a topcoat I bought in Hong Kong. That can only happen to you in the air age. I've got only one problem-a small one. I'm the only man in the U.S. who has to ask his wife for a passport." Mrs. Parrish, known professionally as Frances Knight, chief of the passport division at the State Department, has not yet pulled her official strings...