Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Older citizens, if they search their memories hard, can still remember when Elizabeth Taylor appeared opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home, was seen around Hollywood playing with rabbits and turtles, and wrote a story about a pet chipmunk entitled Nibbles and Me. Ah, youth! Today every movie fan from Pomona to Pago Pago knows that when Elizabeth Taylor nibbles, it isn't chipmunks. And so when Liz got involved with a laddie who wouldn't come home and a lassie who wouldn't stand for it, Hollywood was in the midst of one of those major...
Gray died of smallpox, contracted after treating it in his small nephew. But the book had already given him the fame of a far older man. Today platoons of top physician-editors preside over every new edition, and like every healthy institution, it has markedly changed through the years. Gray might not recognize much of himself in the new British 32nd edition, but the structure is the same. The way Dr. Gray looked at the human body simply cannot be beaten...
...perhaps the fastest-moving young conductor of his generation. In the five years since he made his European debut, he has conducted most of the Continent's great orchestras, has appeared often at Milan's La Scala and in Vienna. A superb technician, Maazel invariably impresses older musicians with the vast amount of music he carries about in his head and the maturity of his musical ideas. "He is not sensational," said Violinist Isaac Stern after playing with him recently. "He is a little better than that. He is good...
...plans a conference on new valuation ideas, one aim of which will be to encourage the use of better housing materials with low maintenance cost. Also in the works are new FHA appraisal rules to upgrade housing, plus a trade-in program that will assure interim financing for older houses while they are being exchanged for new ones, and at the same time cut red tape and closing fees to make it almost as easy to trade in a used house as a used car. This will enable families to buy up or down the line in house size, neighborhood...
...Older concessions, however, can suffer under the NSA regime. Once the "founder" of a new concession has graduated from the University, his profit-making idea becomes the property of the Employment Office. Techniques could become stultified, and originality driven out. Continuous repetition "can be insidious," Burke states, and standardized practices could, in effect, destroy potential profits. There should be some provision to discontinue outdated agencies...