Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responsibility at a young age," he says pensively. "I made a lot of decisions out there. You know, which plow and which shift to bring on and what to do . . ." His wife Elise is at his side and, sensing that the conversation is getting pretty silly, brings it to a close. "Isn't this getting terribly psychoanalytic?" she dryly interjects. Du Pont leans back, relieved. He is too well bred to say so, but if endless soul-searching is what it takes to be President, then he doesn't want...
...days later authorities revealed that a farewell note in a trouser pocket had confirmed what many had already surmised: Rudolph Hess, the last surviving member of Nazi Germany's high command, had finally escaped his captors by taking his own life at the age...
Elderly movie actors have one big advantage over aging journalists. The actor may now look his age doing headache commercials, but a younger public brought up on television reruns has a live and fond memory of him at his once best. Yet when a newspaperman like James ("Scotty") Reston, 77, gives up his New York Times column after more than 30 years at it, how many outside his own craft recall the days when he was the best journalist of his time...
...prospect of the country's second largest conglomerate's shutting down indefinitely stirred Seoul into direct action. Hyundai produces the Excel, a subcompact popular in the U.S. and one of the most potent symbols of South Korea's economic coming of age. Though Chung denies that he caved in to government pressure, he admits that his initial refusal to negotiate was wrongheaded. "I thought they ((the union leaders)) were too young and inexperienced with company affairs to represent all the workers," says the 71-year-old Chung. "After I met with them personally, I found out I had been wrong...
...area is the debate louder than over issues of sexuality and morals. There was a national uproar last year, for example, when a bill was introduced to unify a patchwork of laws covering sex and pornography. One of the legislation's provisions triggered particular anger: lowering the age of consent from 16 to twelve years of age. Church leaders and parents were outraged, and the Dutch Cabinet quickly killed the proposed...