Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...period of national mourning has been proclaimed by President Johnson. "His steadfast leadership served us undaunted through good times and bad--as businessman, provider for the poor and hungry, president, and elder statesman," Johnson said...
...thousands of years Chinese society has honored age above all else, and the ruling role of the elder is one of the few ancient attitudes that Peking's modern masters have left unassailed-if only in self-defense. Party Boss Mao Tse-tung is 70 and beginning to show it. Premier Chou Enlai, 66, is ailing, as is Defense Minister Lin Piao, at 56 a mere bean sprout in the Peking Politburo, whose average age is 65. Often mentioned as Mao's successor, Party Secretary-General Teng Hsaio-ping is over 60. Beset by intimations of mortality...
Born. To Geraldine Gleason, 25, elder daughter of TV's indestructible Fat Man, and John Chutuk, 26, Manhattan talent agent: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...were Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded "fatigue" at the last minute and didn't show. Just as well: he would have seemed out of place at this reunion of jazz's elder statesmen, come to celebrate one of their...
...many young guys around who are interested in playing the old unconfined jazz. Music has survived some strange invasions but we've done an awfully good job of being relevant for quite a few years. We've raised some hell in our time." As an elder statesman, Condon is probably too gloomy. Fact is that Dixieland music is experiencing something of a renaissance. At debutante balls and bar mitzvahs, on campuses and at country-club dances, Dixieland bands are discoursing anew on an old theme that Eddie Condon kept alive...