Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magistrate Juda, who led the Bikinians during most of their 22-year sojourn as castaways of the Atomic Age, will not be going home. He died of cancer four months...
Among Africa's first known tribal groups were the artistically talented Bushmen, who scratched out their lively rock drawings of hunters and wild animals in the Stone Age. Some 7,000 years ago, the Hamites came across the Suez, bringing a rudimentary knowledge of agriculture, and soon they intermarried with Bushmen and early Negroes to produce new races. Over the continent's vast distance, these groups scattered into the polyglot tribes that fractionalize Africa today. Each went its own way. Some tribes raised empires based on hereditary rulers. In other tribal cultures, outstanding men or women and sometimes even children...
...world undoubtedly expected too much of the Africans: invaded by foreigners as different from themselves as Martians would be from Americans, they were governed like Helots for less than a century, then abruptly cast aside. Africans were roughly in the late Iron Age when the 19th century European colonizers arrived; yet they have been expected to do in a decade or two what took the U.S. and Europe, with far more natural and human resources, several centuries to accomplish. Compared with the West's bloody record of religious and world wars, the Africans have been surprisingly restrained...
...Satchel is one of the greatest pitchers of all time," said Braves Owner William Bartholomay, "and baseball would be guilty of negligence should it not assure this legendary figure a place in the pension plan." That it would. Though Satch leaves everyone guessing about his age, he was born some time around 1905, the son of a Mobile, Ala., gardener. In an era when professional sport was for whites only, the gangling, broad-shouldered iron man with the blazing fastball had to sweat out a living on the old Negro circuit. For almost three decades, he pitched as often...
...charity has nothing to do with signing Satch. "With his tremendous background," said Bartholomay, "Paige is expected to be a great help in working with young players." He may even get into a game or two. After all, in his final appearance with the A's, at the age of 60 or thereabouts, he held the Boston Red Sox scoreless for three innings...