Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joan MirÓ, D.A. Spanish painter. His joyful creations have greatly enhanced the artistic resources of this age...
...lumber settlements to Southern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels, nestled in a wooded hollow along a back road eleven miles west of Baltimore, has managed to survive. Its company store, company houses, company-dominated churches and company mill-its raison d'être-all remained intact in the age of the megalopolis...
Coffin greeted the sentence with a droll "I think they have confused the lightning bugs with the lightning." Of the guilty four, draft-age Ferber stands to lose least from the verdict. While appealing the case, he is a free man; had he been let off, he would have faced immediate induction. Presumably, Ferber would have refused to serve, and thereby become liable for prosecution under the Selective Service...
...materials. Although two atomically armed nations-France and Red China-will not sign the treaty, and such nations as India, Israel and West Germany may do so reluctantly, if at all, Johnson nonetheless hailed it as "the most important international agreement in the field of disarmament since the nuclear age began." He also emphasized that non-nuclear nations are "entitled" to demand that the superpowers make progress "on the limitation of strategic defensive and offensive" nuclear weapons...
Fire on the Sabbath. The son of Polish immigrants who went to Jerusalem when he was a child, Goren was a Talmudic prodigy who became Palestine's youngest ordained rabbi at the age of 16, a year later published a scholarly study of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. He joined the Zionist underground in 1936, was a sniper in Jerusalem during the Palestine war. and became chief rabbi of the Israeli army when it was formed in 1948. Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah...