Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players were holding out for a pension-fund donation of $312,000 from each of the 16 clubs. That would increase the size of the fund from $5.5 million to $10.5 million and nearly double the basic pension (now $450 a month) for a five-year N.F.L. veteran at age 65. Pleading poverty, the owners refused. "There are at least three, maybe five teams in this league, which cannot absorb that cost and stay anywhere near healthy," said Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. The athletes were not convinced. Said Minnesota Vikings End Paul Flatley: "We put fans...
...receiving vocational training in high school. Thus, American high schools busily churn out millions of students who are supposed to head for post-college careers they will never see. Fully 75% of them have had no training at all for the world of work. Unemployment in the 16-19 age group is 13.6%, the highest of any age group in the land (see BUSINESS). These "push-outs" are the first to be caught by the whipsaw of poverty and despair...
...published his first book, Interplanetary Flight, describing with remarkable prescience the space age that was dawning. Me won the permanent allegiance of science-fictioneers in 1953 with Childhood End, a novel about the transformation of man after he encounters benign but grotesque visitors from outer space. In 1963, Profiles of the Future illustrated his growing confidence in his gift for technological prophecy. He predicted that man would contact intelligent extraterrestrials by 2030, create artificial life by 2060 and achieve immortality...
...created for the subteen market, which accounts for about one out of every four single records sold. These customers, who range from high school freshmen all the way down to third-graders, are the displaced persons of the rock revolution. Today's groups sing about such everyday teen-age concerns as war, alienation, racism and narcotics. But to quite a few subteens, especially the more sheltered ones, having a social conscience means worrying about getting home by 10 p.m., grass is just grass, sex is necking, and the byword is don't trust anybody over...
Bubble-gum music speaks to them of their own concerns, or rather unconcerns. Since they are at the awkward age, midway between playing house for fun and playing it for real, the music shrewdly looks both ways, combining nursery rhymes with sex. In May I Take a Giant Step (into Your Heart), the lines...