Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police arrested him on charges of inciting a riot and disturbing the peace. The prophet of black power was jailed under $10,000 bond, awaiting a grand-jury investigation of the spark that became a bonfire which was not easily quenched. At week's end a Negro teen-ager was shot and killed and another was wounded, apparently by two whites in a moving car. A policeman assigned to investigate the violence was then wounded by a sniper. The bottles and rocks were flying again...
Displaying the precise control of a teen-ager over a spinning Yo-Yo, controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory maneuvered Orbiter ever closer to the moon's surface in an attempt to eliminate the fuzziness of its high-resolution camera shots (TIME, Aug. 26). Acting after a suggestion from Eastman Kodak technicians that the camera might begin returning clear pictures of possible astronaut landing sites if it were operated from an altitude of 25 miles, they fired Orbiter's retrorocket for three seconds, reducing the low point of its orbit from 30.4 to 25.1 miles...
...Buddy Guy, 29, can be a compelling singer but prefers to let his guitar do the singing for him, from deep moans and explosive shouts to squeals of delight. As a teen-ager in Baton Rouge, he made his own guitar with wires pulled from a window screen, now plays lead in Junior Wells's group. Though he never practices ("My wife won't let me play at home"), he ranks as one of the finest blues instrumentalists...
...says, will sometimes see a couple of young lovers in the park or somewhere and feel an actual physical pang, or they divorce their wives of 20 years' standing and go leaping off into a new marriage with a secretary. But these are the exceptions. The average middle-ager sublimates, and instead of pinching his secretary, he buys a convertible or starts drinking more than he used to. Most of the middle-aged men in my set are too tired to drink that much. Anyhow, I guess that overall, TIME'S conclusion is that the thing...
...TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation" [July 29], is a delight. I am tired of hearing that the teen-ager is the biggest spender in the country, that it is on his shoulders that the world rests, etc. Where does the teen-ager get his money, who feeds him, educates him, employs him, houses him, gives him cars? The middleaged, of course...