Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never one to go gently into a good fight, Britain's Bertrand Russell came caustically to the defense of atheism in countering rumors that he had got religion at the age of 96. "There is a lie factory at work on behalf of the afterlife," wrote Lord Russell to a U.S. housewife who queried him on his alleged conversion. "My views on religion remain those which I acquired at the age of 16. I consider all forms of religion not only false but harmful...
From the Circus. In 1962, Italian Anthropologist Venerando Correnti identified the bones-which consist of approximately half a skeleton-as those of a robustly built man about 5 ft. 4 in. in height and between 65 and 72 years of age. An analysis of the dirt found with the bones, Dr. Guarducci claimed, showed that it had come from the area near the circus of Nero, where Peter was crucified...
Bravo (circ. 778,000) and Twen (212,000), teen-age magazines; Eltern (1,200,000), a magazine for parents; and Jasmin, a four-month-old bi-weekly that has already reached a 1.5 million circulation by presenting a glossy view of the swinging life...
...truancy that ended in a short reformatory stretch-an experience that was to become the basis for his first film. As an adolescent film fanatic, he came to the attention of André Bazin, dean of French movie critics, who took Truffaut into his personal custody when, at the age of 18, the youth was discharged from the army as an "unstable personality...
...planes costing $89 million. In about four years, however, Six intends to start slowing down. Says he: "When I get to be 65, I want to stay active in the company, but I don't want to be on the firing line every day at that age. My Number One job will be to find a new president and build up Continental with new routes and new business so I'll have a respectable airline to turn over to a younger...