Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each of the genial old pros picked a genial younger man for the test of power in the gubernatorial primary. Chandler's early choice: his Lieutenant Governor, Harry Lee Waterfield, 48, tall, shy native of Tobacco (pop. 50) and publisher of the Hickman County Gazette. In the state capital at Frankfort, Waterfield had learned fast from a master teacher, joined Chandler in ownership of the new Indian Hills subdivision, to which their highway department conveniently ran a state road. Aside from fighting down the scandals, Waterfield's toughest campaign job is to shake loose from the increasingly unpopular...
...state ballet schools in Russia) is swamped by applications from 1,500 Russian 7-to 9-year-olds each year; no more than 40 are accepted. Bolshoi students get full board and tuition, wear traditional uniforms that vary with their ages, e.g., blue shirts and red ties for the younger boys, black-and-brown dresses and orange ties for the girls. Their rigid course takes nine years, with up to five hours of practice a day. On graduation day the students enter the state examination room, called by the school's Director Helen Bocharni-kova "the most terrifying place...
...younger generation is more tolerant than its parents: only 17% of those in the 21-to-39-year age group would not vote for a Catholic, though 31% of their elders (50 and older) would still refuse. But any Catholic presidential candidate must still start with a handicap of one voter out of every four against...
Died. William Ford, 87, younger brother of the original Henry; of a heart attack; in Detroit. William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...
Ulanova does not have the biggest mass following in Russia: younger fans prefer 32-year-old Maya Plisetskaya (TIME, May 4). But Ulanova is the most revered Russian dancer (perhaps the most revered Russian artist in any field), and was even before she moved to the Bolshoi Company in 1944. Born in St. Petersburg in 1910, she was introduced to the dance early: her father, Sergei Ulanov, was a member of the corps at the famed Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theater, and her mother, Maria Romanova, a Mariinsky soloist and teacher at the St. Petersburg Ballet School. At first Galina...