Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every South African black man over the age of 18 must pay a "head tax" of ?1 ($2.80) per year. Since even a black industrial worker's average yearly wage is only $369, more than 150,000 blacks are jailed every year for failure to pay. Last week South Africa's House of Assembly passed a bill that will nearly double the head tax on blacks this year...
...credit for a new TV course, provided they are wide awake at 6:30 each weekday morning. Starting Oct. 6, NBC's half-hour Continental Classroom has been approved by 300 colleges and universities (among them: Chicago, Rutgers, N.Y.U., Minnesota), will offer a college-level course on "Atomic Age Physics." For this venture, local schools will be responsible for answering student questions, practical work, exams...
...about the wife he had to leave behind when he took on his new incarnation. "Wives," declares Walston woundedly, "cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...
When the moon is not in the sky, the Navy's dish will be at the service of peacetime scientists. By bringing information from as much as 6 billion light years away, it may tell the size and age of the universe. It may tell whether the universe exploded from a center a few billion years ago, or whether it is still being created and continues indefinitely in all directions in both time and space...
When she eloped at 20 with thin-lipped Oleg Cassini, a dress designer and erstwhile Russian count, her beloved father threatened to sue her for $50,000. Charge: breach of contract with the family corporation formed to control her earnings. (Legally of age by marriage, she had signed a new contract with 20th Century-Fox.) Though eventually settled with a tearful reconciliation, the threatened suit was a severe shock, soon followed by the unexpected divorce of her parents after 25 years of marriage...