Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown is having less trouble with Younger, known as "mashed potatoes" because of his bland campaigning, than with his onetime liberal supporters. Asks Shirley Wechsler, executive director of Americans for Democratic Action in Southern California: "Why should the 20% of the electorate identifying themselves as liberals vote for the Jarvisized Democrats?" Brown replies evenly that it is possible to "move left and right at the same time...
After undermining the taste, intelligence and dental hygiene of American children every Saturday morning for a generation, commercial television may have discovered a way to make amends: news for kids. In recent years the networks have been experimenting with various brief news updates and didactic entertainment specials for younger viewers.* But so far, TV has produced nothing for children quite so grown up as CBS's newborn 30 Minutes...
...allowed Spinks to bash away. Now Ali backpedaled on resilient legs and, more important, he used his hands. The famous Ali jab lacked the sting of old, but it held Spinks at bay. Each time the boxers closed on one another, Ali threw short, tightly paced combinations into the younger man's face. Once, Spinks had swarmed over Ali with furious flurries; this night, Ali beat him to the punch. By the fifth round (which Ali won on points but lost when the referee penalized him for holding), he was in control of the fight. The only question...
...nobody is getting any younger. And now we try, so stupid and futile--it makes you want to stop trying...
What is to become of these outcasts? Already, about half the country's 110 million population is 19 years of age or younger. Some experts predict that within 20 years or so, Brazil will be burdened with millions of adults so undernourished, unskilled and uneducated that they will be impervious to any kind of civilizing process. Experts report that the signs of this prophecy are already unmistakable. With nothing to look forward to, the children indulge in delusions of a glorious future. Says a psychologist: "We have illiterate seven-year-olds who say they are going to be doctors...