Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space-age sealants, developed for caulking seams in spacecraft, now plug the gaps between bathroom tiles. Latex paints, developed as a protection against ultraviolet radiation, are being applied to home walls. Filament-wound plastics enable North American Car Corp. to make railway tank cars that weigh nine tons less than cars made of steel but are just as strong...
...Hickok and Buffalo Bill among its characters. But they all seem tame compared with the types portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam and Faye Dunaway. In Little Big Man, from Thomas Berger's picaresque novel, Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times of a hand, an ear, an eye, a leg and his scalp...
...progressive cardinal as his spiritual director and carried on a close correspondence with him. A brilliant student at Rome's Gregorian University, where he earned doctorates in theology and philosophy and a baccalaureate in canon law, Suenens returned to Belgium to become a professor of philosophy, at the age of 25, at Malines Seminary. A decade later he was named vice-rector of Belgium's famed Louvain University, and in 1945, was consecrated a bishop...
...most tragic, and in some ways most mysterious, form of mental illness in children is infantile autism. Autistic* children live in a lonely and unbreakable trance. As babies, they seldom look into their mothers' eyes, they never reach out to be picked up and cuddled. By the age of about two, they have withdrawn completely from the world, ignoring the people around them in favor of the Teddy bears or dolls to which they become fanatically attached. The smallest departure in routine can send them into screaming paroxysms; some must wear tiny football helmets to prevent them from smashing...
...earlier years of the jet age, swiftly growing travel and the sheer efficiency of the new planes sent airline stocks soaring - in some cases more than 1,000%. "Many a house was built on the profits that people made from 1961 through 1966 in their airline investments," says Bache & Co. Analyst Henry Siegel. Now the airline stocks are no longer the high and the mighty. They are among the leaders in the market's decline, down as a group by 37% since the beginning of the year. The drop is accelerating: the index of air stocks fell...