Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That left Goodell, and a couple of others. Former Senator Kenneth Keating apparently lost out because of his age, 68. Congressman Ogden Reid, a liberal from suburban Westchester, was eliminated because he seemed too much like the state's other Republican Senator, Jacob Javits. Goodell, a moderate conservative from upstate, would provide a sounder balance to Javits. And. at 42, he appears to have a long and bright political future...
Reading the Koran. But nowhere was the devastation more complete than at Kakhk, which is located near the epicenter of the original quake. The stench of death hung everywhere as Iranian soldiers, Boy Scouts and teen-age volunteers, their faces covered with protective handkerchiefs, dug frantically into the rubble. More than 40 hours after the earthquake, one grandmother was found safe beneath a fallen archway, reading the Koran to her three-year-old grandson. Few of the searches were so well rewarded...
...Some may take up to ten years to get a B.A. "There will be 14-and 15-year-old early entrants in classes with 30-and 40-year-old returnees," Mayhew predicts. "There will be young married couples, women whose children are full grown and men who, at the age of 50, will be seeking re-education to prepare for a second, third, fourth or even a fifth career-which can be for work, retirement or leisure...
...progress are eased. Instead of flunking out, students will be able to stay with a subject until they master it. Mayhew may be overly sanguine in predicting that by 1980 "parents will have accepted the fact that childhood or youth will have extended to 30 to 35 years of age." But with increased life expectancy, he argues, the 30-year-old graduate can still anticipate 45 years of productive adult activity...
...Golden Age of subversion" is over, says Editor William F. Buckley Jr., and he almost seems to regret it. Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...