Word: bengtson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impatient Lombardi holdovers on his staff quickly concluded that he was incompetent and let that be known around town. Nevertheless, Devine managed to turn around the losing team he had inherited from Lombardi's immediate successor, Phil Bengtson. He took the Pack to the play-offs his second year in Green Bay and was selected as conference coach of the year...
Indeed, Sociologist Vern Bengtson of the University of Southern California's Andrus Gerontology Center foresees an "age backlash" in the coming decades, a period
...elderly will become the major group agitating for change. The trend is already becoming evident in a few cities, where "gray panthers" have been organizing to demand better housing, increased Social Security benefits and improved medical care. It can also be noted in news-media treatment of the elderly. Bengtson has counted the number of items concerning senior citizens in three leading newspapers-the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times-in 1960 and 1972 and noted a sixfold increase. Nevertheless, Congress has yet to fund the National Institutes of Health's newly created Institute...