Word: septuagenarian
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...though it held him prisoner, the government found it difficult to bring him to trial. In Turin, Curcio and 52 others faced charges of armed insurrection (maximum penalty: life imprisonment). The Red Brigades responded by assassinating a prominent jurist; the trial was thereupon postponed. When the distinguished septuagenarian president of the Turin bar asked to aid in Curcio's defense, he was shot to death near his office. Curcio, who demanded the right to conduct his own defense, declared that the lawyer was a "collaborationist of the regime" and had been "executed." As the Turin trial was rescheduled...
...since Stalin became a septuagenarian in 1949 has there been such an outpouring of praise in the Soviet Union. Newspapers daily headlined Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's long record of accomplishments. He was festooned with medals from the Communist states of Eastern Europe. His life was depicted in a documentary film, his collected speeches were issued in new editions, and the official news agency Tass carried a synopsis of his career that covered eleven feet of Teletype paper. These celebrations underscored Brezhnev's position as the sole survivor among the big-power leaders of the past decade. Lyndon...
...name and to reorganize its anthropology collection. Mead plans to help raise the target of $5 million, at least when she can spare the time. She is working on a new book.Letters from the Field, and is still traveling. Contemplating a trip to Bali in the spring, the spry septuagenarian says: "I fully intend to die, but I have no plans to retire...
Kesey and Cows. Jimmy Carter's septuagenarian mother, Miss Lillian, takes it as an appetizer before every meal. Atlanta's Mayor Maynard Jackson likes it for lunch. Author Ken Kesey raises his own cows in Oregon so he can control the yogurt making from start to finish...
...Paris again starring in an elaborate new show celebrating the 50th anniversary of her debut. There a heart attack ended one of the most extravagant lives in show-business history. She had been working hard, rehearsing from 10 a.m. until midnight. As she herself put it: "For almost a septuagenarian...