Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chemistry in Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel is not of science, but of flesh and blood. McMahon chooses as his narrator Timmy MacLaurin, a teen-ager who accompanies his father, Harold, first to Oak Ridge and then to Los Alamos. (The similarity of names can hardly be coincidental; though the author was an infant during World War II, his father later participated in development of the hydrogen bomb.) For the scientists in McMahon's New Mexico, the creation of the Bomb involves a minimum of moral anguish and soul searching. There is the war. There...
Tracy feels that when he needs advice on practical matters, he must often turn to others. "A teen-ager today can't expect his parents to know everything, or know enough to answer all his questions. There may be a drifting away from the parental information center, but I don't think the parent as the parent will disappear. He will have a different role. In the future, parents will
...rock scene is an odd setting for a writer whose previous books have tried to bring to life Norman England and Hungary in the 16th century, as well as for a girl who grew up reading Gregory of Tours as a teen-ager and still holds a grudge against Gibbon for leaving the footnotes to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in Latin. "Call it wish fulfillment" she insists, talking of Cold Iron, "call it fantasy, but don't call it autobiography." The book took a year and a half to write and required 15 new versions. "Writing...
Last week a 14-year-old Harlem youth died from an overdose of heroin. He was the 102nd teen-ager to die from drug-related causes so far this year in New York City; 322 adults have also been killed by drugs in the same period. To slow one aspect of this lethal trade the committee members are studying the possibility of new legislation to control the sale of paraphernalia, including quota systems for the sale of heroin additives. In an attempt to help, the United States Envelope Co. of Springfield, Mass., which manufactures glassine envelopes, last week announced that...
JAMES A. LOVELL JR., 42, captain, U.S.N., Apollo's commander, had his eye on the stars ever since, as a teen-ager in Milwaukee, he frightened his neighbors by firing a homemade rocket 80 feet into the air. Entering Annapolis in 1948, he was allowed only one elective course, a language. He chose German and then used his newly acquired linguistic skill to read the writings of a little-known scientist, Wernher von Braun. Convinced of the coming importance of rocketry, he accurately predicted many current space-flight advances-much to the amusement of his Naval Academy roommate...