Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edgar Hoover accepted Nixon's invitation to remain as FBI chief. Nixon will be Hoover's eighth President (Calvin Coolidge was the first) and almost certainly his last. "The Director" is already four years past the normal mandatory retirement age (he will be 74 on New Year's Day), and it is understood that he will step down at age 75 with 45 years of service as the bureau's chief. Why the extension? Explained a Nixon aide: "You don't begin a law and order campaign by firing J. Edgar Hoover...
...Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley was just recovering from it. In Hollywood, Actress Natalie Wood was felled by it while shooting a $3,000,000 film. In Seattle, a pair of twin baby orangutans were placed in isolation when they came down with its symptoms. With jet-age speed A2-Hong Kong-68, more commonly known as "Hong Kong flu," spanned the nation last week, respecting neither station nor species...
Socialism and Rheumatism. He was an indefatigable barnstormer, crisscrossing the U.S. in each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well...
...last years he was tormented by arthritis, failing eyesight and a weak heart. Not long before his death, he reflected: "I suppose it is an achievement to live to my age and feel that one has kept the faith, or tried to. To have had a part in some of the things that have been accomplished in the field of civil liberties, in the field of better race relations, and the rest of it-that's the kind of achievement that I have to my credit...
Britain's House of Lords was debating a knotty problem: whether or not to lower from 21 to 18 the age at which a man may marry without parental consent. Finally, up stepped that superfeminist and onetime minister under Clement Attlee, Lady Summerskill, 67, to oppose the measure and put the issue in perspective: "Although your lordships know that I try to promote the interests of my sex frequently in this House, on this occasion I am biased in favor of the boy. I know the power of my sex when they are young. One has only to look...