Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Class No. 5-bringing to 50 the total roster of active astronauts-is younger and better educated than the original Mercury team (32.8 years v. 34.5; 5.8 years of college v. 4.3). All 19 are seasoned jet pilots. Seven are Air Force officers, six Navymen, two Marines and four civilians. One, Air Force Captain Joe H. Engle, who last June rocketed an X-15 experimental plane to an altitude of 53.1 miles, has already reached the lower fringes of space. Two are Viet Nam veterans: Lieut. Commander Paul J. Weitz, recently returned home after flying 132 combat missions...
...given week, and it costs little more to see one than to go to a movie. However, says Peter Hall, "we've got rid of that stuffy middle-aged lot that go to the theater as a sop for their prejudices. We're getting a younger audience who are looking for experiences and will take them from the latest pop record or Hamlet." The In Hamlet this year is David Warner, 24, who plays the Dane with Beatle haircut and a Carnaby Street slouch...
Hans Holbein the elder drew sensitive linear portraits which were largely within the Medieval tradition though, at times, he too felt the pressure of Renaissance idealism. The younger Holbein, (see figure 1) representing a new generation drew the idealized figures and solid forms of the Renaissance with little nostalgia for the spirit of the Middle Ages (see his Two Lansquenets Boring an Escutcheon...
Police said last night the younger Wales may have been running to catch a train when he slipped and fell under the wheels of the moving train...
Funeral arrangements for the father and son were incomplete as of last night. It had been expected that the younger Wales' funeral would be in New York, with a Cambridge service unlikely...