Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reforms Proposed. LUV's labors are coming at a time when support is gathering for broad-based reform of the nation's electoral process, including lowering the voting age and abolishing the Electoral College Richard Nixon repeatedly advocated lowering the voting-age requirement during the campaign, and both Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen are on record as supporting the move. Recently, Mansfield and Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken co-sponsored a resolution to lower the voting age to 18 and introduce a system of direct election that would...
Knocked-Down Dauphin. De Gaulle, who was 78 last November, has called old age "a shipwreck" and insisted that "one must know how to retire." Until last week, however, the general has been a reynard about the timing of his farewell. Associates assumed that he might leave early. Since De Gaulle dotes on symbolism, the dates most often guessed were June 18, 1970, the 30th anniversary of his London broadcast urging French resistance, or his 80th birthday later that year. What prompted De Gaulle last week to stop playing coy was that another fox was suddenly being blunt...
...summer afternoon in 1963, a teen-age couple boarded a ski lift to sur vey the view from a peak in New York's Catskill Mountains. After lingering on the mountaintop at the Belleayre Ski Center, 16-year-old Ruth Fried man and her 19-year-old companion, Jack Katz, decided to return. Partway down, the lift suddenly rumbled to a halt. The attendant had presumably closed the lift for the day, and no one heard the couple's shouts...
Hopefully, millions of young women in this country have similar views of morality at age 16." Said the state in its brief: "Death above dishonor is ad mirable. But should that subject a property owner to liability simply because it occurs on his premises...
...moviegoer over the age of 30 has memories of Morocco. Of Humphrey Bogart, explaining his presence in Casablanca: "I came for the waters. I was misinformed." Or Gary Cooper as Beau Geste, with ketchup all over his Foreign Legion tunic, dying bravely in defense of the Late Show and his papier-mâché fort. And there were Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, singing as they set out on the road to Dorothy Lamour...