Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower: A "genial, glamorous and affable general who had joined the Republican Party after he had reached the age of retirement from the Regular Army" (Clement); "he was born in the district that I represent, and everybody down there that remembers him says he was a good baby. Then he moved off to Kansas, and after he is 60 years of age, he decided he'd be a Republican" (Texas' Sam Rayburn); "he cannot Hagertize his way through this whole campaign" (Clement...
WANTED : Young gentleman, age 22 to 28, public school and/or university education, required for service in an Eastern state; proficiency in languages essential...
This summer, at the age of 17, Jimmy put the U.S. military in a mild flap. For years government officials have mourned that the nation's youth have no incentive to enter the world of science. Jimmy had plenty of incentive. Enough, in fact, to sit down and build a six-foot rocket. Jimmy wanted to enter further into the world of science by flying his rocket from a farm outside Charlotte (pop. 145,000). He was confident that it would work fine. Why shouldn't it? He had made it himself on a rickety table...
...gardens at Versailles, painted in two CinemaScope-like sections, it is being installed this week in a specially built circular room in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Versailles is a masterwork of sobersided, redheaded John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), a painter deeply admired in his youth, deeply pitied in old age, and deeply buried in the textbooks after his death. The picture's new home at the Met should do much to rescue Painter Vanderlyn from his long oblivion...
Author Sagan is all set to repeat her success with A Certain Smile. More than 200,000 copies have been sold in France, and the U.S. publisher had 100,000 in print before publication. In Bonjour Tristesse, the teen-age heroine lived on cozy terms with her widowed father's succession of mistresses until he proposed to marry one, at which point the daughter showed her claws and drove the poor woman to suicide. A Certain Smile is only slightly less scandalous, and similarly concerned with Author Sagan's thirst for drinking at the fountain of eternal middle...