Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Chicago Candy Tycoon Frank Brach died in 1970 at the age of 80, he left $21 million to his third wife, Helen, a former Miami country club hostess who had married him 18 years earlier. Thereafter, the 58-year-old widow became a recluse, living in a stone mansion on seven wooded acres in suburban Glenview. She consulted a fortuneteller by phone almost daily and produced a drawerful of psychic writings while in a trance-like state. Suspicious of most people, Mrs. Brach preferred the companionship of her nine thoroughbred horses and three mongrel dogs. She seemed close...
...bill includes a provision that would raise the age at which tenured faculty can be forced to retire from 65 to 70. The proposed legislation, which congressional aides predict will pass both houses of Congress within a month, may well tighten the already glutted market for jobs in academia even further...
Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said Thursday the bill would place added strain on the University's budget by forcing it to keep tenured faculty on at full salary for as much as four years past the current retirement age...
Many Harvard faculty members generally teach a half-load of courses after they reach age 66, continuing to work for half-pay until age...
When he found out that 310 people had signed up to take "Boats"--known to the uninitiated as History 1380b, "The Age of Cook"--all John H. (Commodore) Parry, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, could say was, "They must be out of their minds...