Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guess the limits of how fast the youngsters will eventually swim. It is only safe to predict that competitive swimming will create a new breed of tragic hero: the Teen-Age Has-Been...
...course, there is no other sport in which athletes are officially competing by their eighth birthday. With the phenomenal growth of age-group swimming, there are now some 3,000 clubs tutoring upwards of 275,000 water babies. Starting at the age of six or seven, promising youngsters paddle more than two miles a day to build themselves into racing form. Soon they are competing in club aquacades against others their own age in hopes of winning an A.A.U. badge and national recognition. By the time they are twelve, today's swimmers are accomplished veterans, harder of limb, sounder...
...age of the impotent bat and the omnipotent pitch, the National League's Cincinnati Reds are a curious anachronism. Their mound staff is a monument to mediocrity, which is why they are a hopeless 15½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
...poetess of the '20s, who began writing verse at the age of nine...
Died. Alfred Lester Cornwell, 84, former president (1946-54) and chairman (1951-56) of the F.W. Woolworth Co., who supervised the greatest growth in the firm's history; in Brookfield, Conn. "I have seen the company go from the age of the Stanley Steamer to the jet," said Cornwell on his retirement, and so he had, starting out as a stock boy in 1905 and climbing all the rungs to the top. He started the move into suburbia and expanded into South America, thereby boosting annual sales from $477 million to $700 million by the time he was ready...