Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger generation is more tolerant than its parents: only 17% of those in the 21-to-39-year age group would not vote for a Catholic, though 31% of their elders (50 and older) would still refuse. But any Catholic presidential candidate must still start with a handicap of one voter out of every four against...
Illiteracy in Liberia remains at 95%, only one-quarter of the school-age population is actually attending school, and there is still such a national weakness for corruption that the President himself signs all government vouchers for more than $100. But more progress has been made in the last 15 years than in the entire 122 that went before. At one Monrovia polling place last week, an election official wore a red. white and blue paper eyeshade with the motto: "Don't gamble, play it safe, vote Tubman." The country's answer at week's end: more...
...YORK, May 14--President Eisenhower proposed tonight that the federal government underwrite the cost of a $100 million research unit to help preserve America's freedom in the nuclear age...
...constantly surrounded, indeed, overpowered, by the overly protective products of the atomic age...
LONDON--Britain announced yesterday it intends to enter the space age by launching its own earth satellites...