Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personality: Oddly, younger Russians admire the sober Kosygin more than they do Brezhnev. Correct, levelheaded, with a taste for anonymity and a dull, if cultured, public speaking voice, Kosygin emphasizes moderation and maintenance of peace. He is a widower-his wife Klavdia died of cancer last month-and has a married daughter, Liudmila Gvishiani. For all his drab public façade, Kosygin is capable of sharp, dry wit. On a visit to Britain last February, while dining with Tory Leader Ted Heath, he observed: "It is less fun to be in opposition in some countries than in others...
...every building, plumbing is erratic, owners refuse to make repairs or even plant grass in the dusty, barren areas between buildings. Trash and garbage have been collected irregularly, gaping holes in the streets have gone unrepaired, and recreational facilities have been nonexistent. Most serious, more than half of the younger men are unemployed. "They just hang around the streets," says Richard Freeman, chairman of the board of aldermen's police committee. "The trouble is, nobody does anything until you have some trouble like this...
...often snoozed in overstuffed chairs in the watchtowers, were now perched on high aluminum chairs and provided with M-l carbines and sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns in place of puny .22-cal. rifles. Many of the old-timers-moonlighting farmers, bellhops and taxi drivers-were replaced with younger, more competent...
...younger set, a chance for action is provided through the Viet Cong's "assault youth companies," composed of teen-age girls and boys. The companies carry supplies and help police battle fields. They earn 30? a month. If the girls, who are 17 and up, become pregnant while on active duty, they get two months' leave and a maternity benefit of $2.25. Eventually they are expected to graduate into the ranks of the Viet Cong proper, an estimated 10% of whom are women. Last week U.S. Marine Lieut. General Lewis W. Walt reported that in some parts...
...after annotating his early jottings, Wilson lets them stand, wisely refraining from trying to cover up their callowness. The medium-Wilson's younger, more romantic and hopeful self-is at least part of the message, which is that the cozy, cultivated world he grew up in "almost ceased to exist" after the war. Returning home from the service in 1919, he felt that "I had never quite believed in that world, that I had never, in fact, quite belonged to it. It now appeared to me too narrowly limited by its governing principles and prejudices." A Prelude is thus...