Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sommers has done other dangerous escapes, but is retiring from the business now at the age of 43. "I'm getting a little too old for that strenuous work now," he says wistfully. But he does not regret all the time he has spent in a strait-jacket: "How else could I get paid for doing something exciting?" he asks...
...there is an escape artist who puts Sommers--and most other artists in the field--to shame. While Sommers finds escapes too strenuous at age 43, Harold Denhard of Chicago is a sturdy 81 years old. He still performs escapes--including the strait-jacket--and specializes in getting out of lengths of chain and rope...
...proposal to raise to 70 the age at which a person can get a maximum Social Security check was made by the desk set, whose hardest job is making it to the water cooler and back to their desks. They can "work" until 98 before throwing in the towel...
What the hell good does it do to have a retirement age of 70 if you can't get a job after...
Examples like these underscore one of the most frightening challenges of the atomic age: how to get rid of a rising flood of radioactive sludge that results from reprocessing uranium to extract plutonium, which is used to make atom bombs and as fuel for fast-breeder reactors. At the moment there is no technology for disposing of this deadly garbage. But the stockpiles of nuclear waste smoldering away in upstate New York are only part of the problem. In addition, each of the nation's 65 nuclear generating stations also produces waste in the form of spent uranium fuel...