Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RACHEL, RACHEL. Actor Paul Newman makes his debut as director in a quiet tale of a frustrated schoolteacher just entering middle age. His wife. Actress Joanne Woodward, gives the film an added stature with her achingly real portrayal of the heroine...
...widder woman at age 39 is perfectly justified in giving thought to her economic future. Particularly when she is down to her last 20 million bucks...
...electors, usually party regulars selected in state conventions well before the November election, are committed by tradition in most states to vote for their party's candidate. However, the electors are generally free to vote for anyone who meets the constitutional requirements of age, residence and citizenship. In 1960, for example, one Republican elector from Oklahoma voted for Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd...
...knew him doubted the depth and sincerity of his devotion to the people of the "other America" when he found them. He never talked more movingly than when he described the poor. "Have you ever noticed the faces of the children?" he would ask friends. "Up to a certain age, they are so much freer and less inhibited than the faces of well-to-do children. Then, when they are twelve or 13, those faces take on the hopeless look of their parents. They sense what they are up against...
Sheer Will Power. Top Manhattan Model Peggy Moffitt first flew at the age of seven, and used to commute to California by plane; now she travels only by train. Why the changeover? "Nothing dramatic," she says, "I just got married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying...