Word: agee
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Henry Anatole Grunwald, 54, became Managing Editor of TIME in 1968, the seventh M.E. since the newsmagazine's launching in 1923. He began his career with TIME in 1944 as a part-time copy boy and in 1951, at the age of 28, became the youngest senior editor in the magazine's history-a record that still holds. This week Grunwald leaves the magazine to become one of the two Corporate Editors of Time Inc. Announcing the appointment, Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan praised Grunwald's Grunwald "highly creative editorship," under which "TIME'S staff...
...safety of the cloakroom, and the final floor vote was a whopping 359 to 4. Yet the bill that breezed through the U.S. House of Representatives may be the session's most important piece of legislation, with ramifications no one can foresee. It extends the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 in private industry and removes it altogether for federal employees. Said the bill's sponsor, Florida Democrat Claude Pepper, 77: "At long last, we will have eliminated ageism as we have previously eliminated sexism and racism as a basis for discrimination in this country, and we will...
Until recently in America, old people did not have much trouble living up to that philosophy. Work and age had not been severed. In colonial times, elderly people were fewer, but they held the best jobs. Nor did they budge from their posts until death or ill health forced them out. In 17th century New England, 90% of the ministers and magistrates died in office. People showed their respect for age?and power ?by attempting to look older than they were. They powdered their hair and wore the severely cut clothing of the aged...
Gradually, this esteem for the ancients was undermined by notions of liberty and equality that in part stemmed from the French Revolution. The prerogatives of age were swept away. At the end of the 18th century, the first American mandatory retirement laws were enacted in New York State...
Prior to entering Law School, Kuehl was associate dean of students at the University of California Los Angeles. She had been a television actress, beginning at age 9 with "Trouble With Father," and played Dobie Gillis's erstwhile girlfriend Zelda in that series...