Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kuechenmeister's feeling of contentment contrasts with the tone of an article he wrote last winter for Uniroyal's company magazine criticizing forced retirement. "The thing I was objecting to," he says, "is that someone picked a mandatory point. Age isn't a very good criterion." After reading the story, one of his former bosses offered him what might have seemed like a dream deal: a four-month consultancy at the company's Venezuelan plant. But the months were May through August, and Kuechenmeister discovered he no longer wanted a job that would deprive...
There are about 12,000 school-age Turkish youngsters in West Berlin...
...Edward Ball, the debate about extending the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 (see cover story page 18) must seem like a plentiful waste of time. A peppery 89, Ball is a monumentally stubborn, bourbon-sipping, union-busting, Government-fighting apostle of 19th century free enterprise. As senior trustee of the estate of the late chemical heir Alfred I. du Pont, he regularly puts in a full, often tumultuous work week managing one of the nation's greatest private treasuries. Operating out of a spartan office in Jacksonville, Fla., the 5-ft. 5-in. entrepreneur has long been...
...would mark his birthday by resigning the office that he has on occasion observed to be more a burden than a joy. He fueled such discussion years ago by visiting the tomb of the reluctant Pope Celestine V, who abdicated the papacy.* Moreover, Paul revealed his attitudes on the aging when he de - creed that cardinals who reach age 80 are too old to vote on his successor - and that bishops who lead dioceses must submit resignations...
...indicate TV teaches the young that violence often succeeds and that problems can be solved by aggressive behavior. Moreover, kids are likely to copy what they see. And they see plenty: according to the Nielsen Index figures for TV viewing, Americans will have watched 18,000 TV murders by age 18-v. having spent only 11,000 hours in school. In response to pressure from parents and Congress, the networks now seem to be trying to tone down the thud and blunder...