Word: oldham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says the Stones' recording manager, Andrew Oldham, 23: "Pop music is sex and you have to hit them in the face with it." That pleasant chore falls to Mick Jagger, 23, the Stones' heavy-lipped lead shouter, who in performances bumps, grinds and jiggles his pelvis like a spastic marionette. Jagger also has a summons to appear in a Sussex court next month on a charge of possessing drugs...
Within four months, Churchill, then 25, was elected Tory M.P. for Oldham, a sturdy working-class constituency in the industrial north. To finance his new career, he earned $50,000 in five months by lecturing to packed audiences throughout Britain, then the U.S. He knew at once how to delight Americans. When a reporter asked him what he thought of New York, Churchill said gravely: "Newspaper too thick, lavatory paper too thin...
Automatic Transference." Perhaps unsurprisingly, the system spurs children to gobble up I.T.A. books at a phenomenal rate. "Within a month my children refused to go out to play," says an awed teacher in Oldham, where one five-year-old read more than 200 books in his first year. In the U.S., where about 3,000 children are using the method, Lehigh University has 600 first-graders reading at up to third-grade level. Significantly, the British also find that I.T.A. works seeming miracles with backward children. One group of slow seven-year-olds, who had been unable to read more...
...Frances Oldham Kelsey, Federal Food and Drug Administration medical officer, and heroine of the thalidomide drug tragedy Sc.D...
Every grateful American should acclaim Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey Woman of the Year...