Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the girl. "She didn't look like she was scared, and I thought this fellow was just fooling around." But in the cockpit. Captain Byron Rickards got the message instantly, as the plane's two stewardesses edged through the door followed closely by two gunmen. The elder of the two pistol toters, a wiry, balding man, held his .38 against the head of Stewardess Lois Carnagey and announced to the pilot: "We are going to take this plane to Cuba. Alter your course 45° to the south...
Chillingly Familiar. The two hijackers had hardly been noticed when they boarded the plane in Phoenix, an hour earlier, One was Leon Bearden, 38, an unemployed auto salesman from Coolidge, Ariz. The other was his tousle-haired son, Cody, 16. The elder Bearden had a 20-year criminal record, had served prison terms for robbery, forgery and grand theft. In 1955 he spent a month in a Phoenix mental hospital. A chronic malcontent, Leon Bearden nursed a large grudge against the U.S. He and his son, he said, just wanted to go to Cuba and renounce their American citizenship. Lacking...
...fashion. At Canterbury, N.H. (founded in 1792), eleven old "sisters" live in the remaining 25 of the original 38 buildings where once 400 men and women worked and danced and sang. And at the Sabbathday Lake Colony near Portland, Me., lives the last male Shaker in the world-Elder Delmar C. Wilson, 88, with 13 "sisters...
...Elder Wilson arrived in Sabbathday Lake after his father died, when he was eight, and has been there ever since, doing everything in his time from tending cows and installing plumbing to painting pictures. "They say the good is never lost," mused Elder Wilson one day last week. "But it's sad that so many beautiful things have faded away. If we can't carry on. others will. Methods can be improved; principles can't, they...
...titled ghosts seem oddly dated in Welfare State England. Moreover, there is something lacking-the figure of the innocent but virtuous hero (Paul Penny feather of Decline and Fall, Adam Fenwick-Symes of Vile Bodies) whose reasoned view of an unreasoning world gave a special cutting edge to the elder Waugh's comedy. Auberon says he has no interest in being a professional novelist. He wrote The Foxglove Saga because it was what was expected of him in a literary family (his father wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and his Uncle Alec wrote Loom of Youth...