Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spit. In Rome teen-age students -most of them neo-Fascists-marched on the Austrian embassy and hurled stones at the riot police, who doused them with fire hoses and chased them down in red Jeeps. Going before the Chamber of Deputies to win a necessary vote of confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi...
...that valuable scores and orchestra parts were stacked high in La Scala's cellar. He began to buy up some of the scores, set himself up as a copyist, got a contract stipulating that all the scores he produced would remain his property after a performance. In an age without copyrights or royalties on performances, he funneled some of his earnings back to the composers. In 1839 he shrewdly bought the rights to the new opera Oberto from an unknown provincial composer named Verdi...
...position in the water suits her for the longer distances that are her specialty. Sylvia polishes off four full meals a day-breakfast, lunch (meat sandwich), after-school snack (steak sandwich) and dinner (a small steak). She has little interest in boys, does not indulge in teen-age phone chatter, explains, "I do not have the time to waste." Admits Mrs. Ruuska: "We are different from the average family, but we like...
...hazard of the nuclear age came to light last week. Five mechanics of Pan American World Airways had been in Gander, Nfld., to check the Boeing 707 jetliner that went into an unscheduled dive-and almost plunged its passengers into the Atlantic (TIME, Feb. 16). They did their job and returned to New York. When the mechanics passed through a gate at Idlewild International Airport, one of the unseen Geiger counters that monitor international travelers chattered an alarm; some of the work clothes they were wearing were radioactive. At the Pan American dispensary, they were decontaminated and pronounced...
...danger of severe outbreaks of paralytic poliomyelitis is greater this year than last because of public apathy about getting Salk shots, experts warned at a Manhattan meeting called by the National Health Council. Manufacturers are having to destroy tons of vaccine, outdated because of the demand lag. Most exposed age group: children under one year old (only 29% vaccinated), while fewer than 50% under five have had three shots. Best protected are children from five to 14. There is a big drop in vaccinations in the upper teens, but the worst is in the 20-39 age group with...