Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doors to Saint Paul Church in Cambridge remained open yesterday, although the poor weather kept down the number of worshippers who came to pray for the Pope, who died of a heart attack Sunday at the age...
Crane's view of the presidency is somewhat unusual. George Washington is the President he most admires because in an age of many more brilliant men, Washington dominated by force of character, then walked away from power with ease. Crane pays special tribute to Grover Cleveland because Cleveland "had a unique understanding of the impact of soft money on wage earners" and discerned the evils of the era's trade protectionism. If Presidents are judged by what they achieved as measured against their stated objectives, says Crane, then James K. Polk, who vowed to acquire California, settle...
...hopes the investigation will enable them to make a case against Accardo. Despite his age (72) and a heart ailment, Accardo, a former bodyguard for Al Capone, heads the ruling Chicago crime triumvirate, which also includes Jackie ("the Lackey") Cerone and Joe ("Doves") Aiuppa...
...proportions of men and women doing volunteer work become more nearly equal, the feminist objection to volunteerism as a female ghetto may recede. In any case, the needs to be fulfilled transcend the politics of sex. And of age as well. The talent pool of retired Americans, growing larger each year, is an immense resource that should be exploited more, to staff day care centers, for example, and to perform more sophisticated jobs...
...love have been disasters. Her first important romance was with Peter Goulandris, heir to another Greek shipping fortune, but the couple were so incompatible that they never got as far as the altar. That over, she married, at 20, a Los Angeles real estate broker more than twice her age named Joseph Bolker. Nine months later, they divorced. Four months after her father's death, in 1975, she married Alexander Andreadis, scion of an Athens business family. "It is like being made a king for life," gushed Andreadis, who was dethroned by divorce less than two years afterward...