Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more--so far 15 per cent have been divorced and, if the class continues to follow national patterns, many more divorces can be expected in coming years. Although most of the divorced men remarry, fewer members of Harvard '52 try again than other American men in the same age bracket...
...dreams the single-sculler sculled in, oars dipping in the gentle gray-watered Thames, was the dream of a New Age. Flowers out of the rubble! The rebuilding of Europe! The resurgence of major league baseball! A generation (at least!) of peace in which to enjoy the fruits of our national good fortune! Some of us certainly worried about larger concerns, notably the menace of atomic war--the worriers coming late to their worries for media puberty was more retarded then. To worry was to be grown up; presumably, if one had been too young for fighting the good fight...
...Bryant. Now 37, she was a runner-up for Miss America in 1959 and has made several million-record sellers. She earns around $500,000 a year, including $100,000 for extolling Florida citrus fruits on TV. A devout Baptist, Bryant claims she was "born again" at the age of eight. As an entertainer, says Bryant, she sees and tolerates homosexuals. But she opposes this ordinance because it prevents private and parochial schools from discriminating against homosexuals in hiring teachers. Her four children attend a Baptist school. Says she: "When the law requires you to let an admitted homosexual teach...
...alpha waves and the bombproof cardiovascular systems are not achieved without cost. Tennis players wreck their elbows and break their Achilles' tendons, but runners, especially when they reach middle age, are creaky with bone spurs, shin splints, knee miseries and bruised heels. Despite layers of foam padding in their expensive Adidas, Puma, Nike and Tiger training shoes, half of the members of a suburban joggers' club will be out of action at any given time...
Cooper devised aerobic exercise schemes for postulants at each stage of conditioning, aimed at keeping the heart working at 70% of its maximum rate. He advises that runners may subtract their age from 220, then take 70% of the result as an optimum heartbeat rate. Cooper then had the flash of genius that has earned him fame and wealth. Exercisers receive intangible but much prized rewards-aerobic "points"-for doing their routines. An evening of ' bowling? No points. Twenty pushups? No points. A round of golf (walking)? Three points. A 7:59-minute mile? Five points. Get running...