Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT kind of U.S. economy will a youngster now getting ready for college find when he gets out? What is the prospect...
...first sign that anything was wrong came when a six-year-old San Diego youngster, Lawrence Vicker, got home for lunch from Eugene Field School and complained that he did not feel like eating. What was more, he had a stiff neck. His mother took his temperature: 103°. Here were three symptoms of polio (although several other diseases cause similar symptoms). Yet Larry, like 26,000 other San Diego children, had been inoculated only five days earlier with the Salk vaccine...
WHEN Sir Anthony Eden takes over as Prime Minister of Great Britain, he will be, at 57, one of the youngest of the world's political leaders, but by no means a youngster in the long roster of British Prime Ministers.* Anthony Eden has aged considerably since his gall bladder operations in 1953, but despite his silver-grey hair, tired eyes and furrowed forehead, he still wears a boyish air. Yet, when Dwight Eisenhower was an army major in the Philippines, Khrushchev an obscure bureaucrat, Nehru a revolutionary in jail and Mao Tse-tung an outlaw in the Shensi...
Many an impressionable youngster has felt that way at 17. But, fantastically, in this case the midnight daydream came true. The young man's name was Adolf Hitler...
...child was obviously father to the madman. Hitler had a formidable capacity for divorcing himself from reality. As a youngster, he kept turning out sketches for grand new cities, planned to tear down half of Vienna and, incidentally, to convert its citizens from wine to a soft drink (a feat that the Fŭhrer, even at the height of his power, never accomplished). Sometimes, he meant to become a second Wagner, and once he started picking out an opera score on the piano ("I shall compose the music, and you will write it down," he told Kubizek...