Word: agee
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DIED. MacKinlay Kantor, 73, prolific writer best known for his Pulitzer-prizewinning novel Andersonville, which depicted the brutalities of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Kantor, great-grandson of a Union Army officer, first became intrigued by the Civil War at the age of ten, when he perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with...
...slow it-continues to be a subject of great controversy. The planet's poorest nations have yet to find effective ways to check their population increase-at least without restricting citizens' rights and violating such traditions as the custom of having large families as insurance in old age. India's new government, for example, has abandoned coercive birth control procedures, even though the country, with a population of 635 million, is growing by a million new people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth is "a threat to our national security...
...Clarke is temporarily stalled as a writer, his literary critics are just beginning their Golden Age, as shown by the quality of the critical essays just released under the appropriate title Arthur C. Clarke. The book is the third in a series of collected critiques on science fiction authors, which has arleady covered Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein; books on Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin are in preparation. For all its amateur wordiness, the book reflects the vitality of this literary genre today. While mainstream short stories can scarcely find a market, sci-fi anthologies have become...
Robert Weiner, staff director of the House Committee on Aging, said yesterday House conferees "plan to stand firm" in opposing all exemptions from the bill raising from 65 to 70 years the age at which employers may force their workers to retire...
Carter, in a letter to Chatee last month, reaffirmed his campaign support for raising mandatory retirement ceilings, and endorsed the concept of providing exemptions from the bill "where age has been found to be an important indicator of job performance...