Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictatorship. Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices are stable because the government holds down wages, but one-third of Portugal's 9,000,000 people live in villages with neither paved roads nor electricity. Last week Lisbon was afire with reports that the old leader, hurt and bewildered by mounting criticism, was thinking of stepping down...
...year-old independent weekly newsmagazine Philippines Free Press declared last week that "there is more grafting and thieving in our government today than there ever was in previous administrations, from that of Manuel Quezon to Ramon Magsaysay. Compared to the callous and venal officials we have nowadays, those that infested the [1948-53 Quirino administration] were clumsy amateurs...
Interviewed in Florida, Singer Pat Boone, sometime lay Church of Christ preacher, allowed that show business is a fine calling for an old (24) codger like himself, but "I wouldn't recommend it for young people-especially girls. If they have a very special talent, maybe...
Officials of a British post office in Farnham, Surrey, disclosed that months have passed since their most famous old-age pensioner dropped by to collect his weekly government check (basic pension: $7). Odds were not that Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 71, was forgetful about his stipend. Instead, with his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 3) selling handsomely (some 200,000 copies so far) and his "half pay" as an old soldier, Monty doubtless decided that the trip to the post office is no longer worthwhile: pension checks are reduced in accordance with the pensioner's outside income...
...salvos to prove that her mind and tongue are keen as ever. On British politics: "I advise Tories to vote Tory. Socialism won't work unless you love your neighbors. I find that so many people don't love their neighbors." On longevity: "Years ago I thought old age would be dreadful because I would not be able to do all the things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do, after...