Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contradictions and uncertainties of the electorate have led Nixon and Humphrey, as their parties' frontrunners, to place unwonted emphasis upon their choices for running mate, seeking the broadest possible ideological umbrella. The old considerations of geographical balance are largely forgotten in the age of jet travel and TV. Instead, the candidates are seeking vice-presidential possibilities to bandage their political weak spots-and to add some luster to their familiar personalities. Some combinations discussed last week...
...Greatest Era. In his letter to President Johnson, Warren gave age as his sole reason for retiring. Still, it is not unlikely that he might have been prodded, as Republicans guessed, by the fear that a President Nixon would appoint a conservative who might undo much of what he had done. Nor is it altogether unlikely? unless last week's nominations are killed by a Senate filibuster? that Black and Douglas, also liberal, might be goaded by the same fear...
...President's proposed 26th constitutional amendment is not a new notion. The idea first reached Capitol Hill in 1942, and Eisenhower lost a 1954 bid to lower the nation's voting age by a mere five votes. But the idea seems to be gaining favor. In recent years, polls have found that the majority of the population favors giving 18-year-olds the vote, and L.B.J.'s proposal joins more than 50 similar submissions that have been made to the 90th Congress. The opposition is typified by such stands as that of the New York Daily News...
...common law, 21 is the voting age in most of the English-speaking world. France also makes it 21, Japan and Germany 20, Russia and some Latin American nations 18, Norway and Sweden 23, and Denmark...
Plump and prosperous at the age of 45, ex-Middleweight Champ Rocky Graziano knocks out little more than clichés these days as a TV "personality." His old nemesis, Tony Zale, also ex-champ, and now 54, reserves his clinches for an occasional guest in the Manhattan pub where he works as "greeter." So when the two retired fighters met last week in a flack-fixed rematch, their panting efforts damaged nothing but the memories of the three Pier Six brawls-among the most savage in all boxing history-that they slugged out from 1946 to 1948. Graziano...