Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pettigrew, reporting last week on a survey he and an associate started in Little Rock during last year's school integration crisis. Of about 100 clergymen interviewed, Pettigrew said, the "pushers" for integration numbered only eight-six Protestants and the city's two rabbis. Their average age was 36, their average service in Little Rock four years, their average congregation 400. Two of the Protestants have since been transferred to rural regions; another is "out of a job," and another is about to be fired...
...powers" were the city's seven most influential ministers, their average age 50, their average congregation 2,800. Most of them were privately for integration but justified their public silence on the subject on the ground that their duty was to hold the church together. The rest were "passives"-older men who favor integration but have a prudent eye cocked on retirement. Their specialty, said Psychologist Pettigrew, was praying for guidance, which is "how to say something without being heard...
...University of Rochester psychiatrist-internist team studied 42 average semiprivate patients at Strong Memorial Hospital. They were selected only on the basis of age (18 to 45) and because they happened to be in the hospital at the time. Included were housewives, businessmen, teachers, laborers, with ailments ranging from bronchitis to brain tumors. Purpose: to see if their illnesses were preceded by any loss in vital personal relationships, any emotions of "separation" (real, threatened or symbolic...
...total fell only slightly to 126 cases, against 76 last year. Warned Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney: "The tragic fact is that many of the cases could have been prevented. Salk vaccine gives 70% to 90% protection against polio, but about 40 million Americans in the susceptible under-40 age group have not yet been vaccinated...
...establish the medieval stronghold city of Novgorod, southeast of Leningrad, as one of the great centers of icon making. A Constantinople-trained Greek named Theophanes-called by a contemporary the "very excellent book illuminator and painter"-was the artist who brought the secrets of Byzantium's golden age to the cold north in the late 14th century, sparked Novgorod's greatest period...