Word: fortyishness
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...China watchers were intrigued, however, that Chou, 74, singled out one emerging party leader as an example of the experienced younger men who could eventually take over the government: Yao Wenyuan of Shanghai, one of the three Politburo members who head the Communist Party's radical wing. Yao, fortyish, who is officially listed as No. 6 in the party hierarchy, is also rumored to be Mao's son-in-law. According to the story put about by the Soviets and Nationalist Chinese and never denied in Peking, Yao is married to Hsiao Li, Mao's daughter...
...Jayne Spain, fortyish, vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, is a director of Litton Industries and the American Management Association. The president of a manufacturing company acquired by Litton in 1966, Mrs. Spain makes no secret of her attitude toward women in the board room. "The sooner we get more women in policymaking positions, the sooner we'll settle a lot of things," she says. "I think women approach problems more from the human view than men do. The woman asks, 'What happens to the people...
...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...
Last June the Holy See unveiled its own new look in guards: a nononsense, black-robed nun named Sister Fiorella. The stern, fortyish sister was installed as Chief Censor on the steps of the Basilica on the theory that a nun might be fairly safe from assault by irate tourists. Before long, the question was: Was anyone safe from Sister Fiorella? Newspapers nicknamed her "The Terrible Nun," and she did her best to live up to the sobriquet. She turned away as many as 35 women a minute during peak periods (up to 2,000 a day), usually with...
Born. To Herbert Khaury (alias Tiny Tim), fortyish falsetto singer, and Victoria May ("Miss Vicki") Khaury, 19; their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Tulip Victoria...