Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the younger generation, I say it's not all right to be second in space, to lose Cuba to Communism, and to appear foolish to the world. What do we have to do, wait to be blown from our rocking chairs...
...brother, and that the appointment would bring outcries of protest. Bobby tried to talk up Max Taylor as the man for the job, but Taylor insists that he does not want it. In any event, Bobby Kennedy realizes that Allen Dulles has to go, making way for a younger man who can give the CIA a thorough overhauling. But the Kennedy brothers are not angry with Allen Dulles. Indeed, as a man, Dulles emerged from the Cuba fiasco with high personal honors. Shortly before the invasion, he urged a bigger air strike to knock out Cuban planes on the ground...
...particles of matter caromed into each other and stuck, moon-sized bodies were formed. These, too, collided with each other and grew into planets. Somehow, the clump of material that men now know as the moon escaped collision and floated free, only to be captured ages later by the younger earth's gravitational field. Far out in space, said Urey, other planets may be forming in much the same manner around other suns...
During pollen-free months, Dr. Whippie goes back to Rochester on emeritus status, still works from 9 to 4. He gave up teaching pathology a year ago, but only to give younger men a chance, and still lectures on the history of medicine. Practicing what he preaches, Dr. Whipple eats liver at least once a week...
...many ways Allen Dulles, 68, is an unlikely sort of man to head CIA. The amiable, scholarly younger brother of John Foster Dulles, Allen got his Phi Beta Kappa key at Princeton, taught for a year in India, joined the Foreign Service in 1916. He was in Switzerland when the U.S. entered World War I, leaped straight into intelligence work. In 1926 he took a law degree at George Washington University, joined his brother Foster in law work in New York...