Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise Theodore ("Teedie"), a brother and two sisters amid days in which, sister Corinne recalled, "the hours flew on golden wings." But Theodore, as he grew older, was nonetheless a boy sorely beset. "I was a sickly, delicate boy," he wrote, "and suffered much from asthma. One of my memories is ... of sitting up in bed gasping, with my father and mother trying to help me." His arm muscles were so weak that he could not stand up to other youngsters. One day his father encouraged him: "You have the mind but not the body . . . You must make your body...
...with morality than most plays." So far, Tennessee's sessions on the couch have not noticeably lightened or sweetened his work. Title of the next play he has in mind for Broadway: Sweet Bird of Youth. The theme: "The corruption of a young man, the corruption of an older woman, and the corruption of an entire community by a political boss...
...What we're doing now," he says, "is deliberately making non-Negro apartments for older whites, pricing them out of the Negro range. We're designing the Eastwick project [2,500 acres, 12,000 units, in southwestern Philadelphia] the same way. We hope that no more than 10% of Eastwick will be Negro. We have to give the whites confidence that they can live in town without being flooded." Dilworth is against an anti-discrimination ordinance for the city, since he believes that it would only serve to panic the whites all the more...
...pile of cables, he read a report on his new, 18-in. Mideast pipeline, fired off an answer to a Turkish importer's request for a large quantity of crude oil. In midafternoon Getty received a distinguished visitor: John D. Rockefeller III, 51, scion of an older oil dynasty, who came to ask his financial support for a $75 million art center in Manhattan. Getty expressed interest, made no commitment. Swiftly he worked through his business mail, answering the letters by scribbling a notation in the margins, then popping them into envelopes to mail back. Shortly after dark...
...only the land cost ($13,770) of the seven scattered Cedartown lots for the one-and two-family houses has been above that of the older housing projects in the area. The building costs of the single houses are cheaper because of prefabricated construction and the fact that no new water, electrical or sewage facilities had to be built. At a cost of $191,972, a total of 20 families are being housed in completely equipped structures with up to four bedrooms and spacious yards. Furthermore, the authority expects that separate houses will be much easier to sell to private...