Word: ageing
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...fond and it fits. Strong and scrappy as a wire-haired terrier, Krulak was commissioned in 1934, won a Navy Cross (second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor) in the Solomon Islands in 1943, became one of the youngest generals in Marine history at the age of 43 in 1956, and helped to map U.S. strategy in Viet Nam. He was high on the list of possibilities for Marine commandant, but when that job went to General Leonard F. Chapman last December, Krulak decided to call it a career and put in for retirement...
Scotland's XYY convicts tended to get into trouble earlier (around age 13) than the average (about 18). But among their siblings there was an unusually low incidence of criminality. And in the only case so far reported of an XYY with several children, the abnormality was not transmitted: an Oregon XYY has had six sons, but all have a normal XY pattern...
Samaras traces back his fascination with rooms to youthful visits to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, where he used to stand entranced in the period rooms. "There was no reference to today," he recalls. "You were overwhelmed, even seduced, into a past age." His mirror rooms fulfill a similar function today by allowing the viewer to experience weightlessness and the expanding universe of tomorrow. Red Grooms traces back the genesis of his Chicago to his boyhood efforts in Nashville to duplicate the Ringling Bros. Circus in his own backyard and to his student days in Italy, where he toured with...
...also hinted that it would find no objection to laws specifically aimed at the protection of juveniles. Last week, by a vote of 6 to 3, the court fulfilled the hints by holding that states may make it a crime knowingly to sell "to minors under 17 years of age material defined to be obscene to them whether or not it would be obscene to adults...
...confessional sins. Among them: speeding, passing without sufficient visibility, driving while intoxicated. In sum, concludes Renard, the Christian must remember that operating an automobile is a human activity that must be "in harmony with our vocation as a spiritual being." To drive home his point, he quotes an auto-age version of the Sermon on the Mount...