Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneticist Haldane would have been the first to deny that his intellectual gifts and interests could have been genetically determined, but there was no doubt that they were early and firmly imprinted on him by his father, John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Longtime professor of physiology at Oxford, the elder Haldane risked his own life by deliberately inhaling carbon monoxide for more than an hour and by sitting in ovens heated as high as 300° F. Young John was only four years old when his father took him down into coal mines and sewers to let him experience...
...solemnly declare before God and my parish that I have committed adultery," announced Pastor Bastianus Gerardus Andries van der Wiel from the pulpit of the Reformed Church of Elburg in The Netherlands. The congregation listened in thrilled silence; then the chief elder rose to deliver a thunderous, hour-long sermon on guilt, as Van der Wiel sat beside his wife with head bowed. Many in the congregation cried, and they sang six psalms for a sinner restored to grace...
...increased international involvement. Although his rival for the premiership, Ichiro Kono, won worldwide acclaim as the top organizer most responsible for the success of the Tokyo Olympics, Sato really had the inside track. He has been Ikeda's heir apparent for more than four years-ever since his elder brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* resigned in the wave of leftist riots that forced the cancellation of President Eisenhower's projected visit...
...learned that her employer of 25 years had left her a $50,000 trust fund, while five other secretaries inherited from $10,000 to $30,000 apiece. Before his death he had transferred much of his wealth to trust funds set up for his two sons. And to his elder son, Herbert Jr., like his father a successful mining engineer and from 1954 to 1957 Under Secretary of State, Hoover bequeathed another $5,000 "as evidence of my affection." The balance of the estate, estimated at more than $5,000,000 in diversified stocks, bonds and real estate, will...
...choice for chief of state, but because the post was to be occupied by a civilian, Minh would have had to resign from the army. This Minh refused to do at the last moment, so the High Council appointed in his place its own chairman, a fragile elder statesman, Phan Khac Suu, 63, who spent eight years in prison for his opposition first to the French and later to Diem. At least theoretically, Suu was empowered to pick a civilian Premier to replace Khanh, reportedly asked Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, 61, a sometime porter, clerk-typist and school official...