Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington. Harry Truman made him budget director in 1949, and Pace produced a healthy budget surplus ($3.5 billion). In 1950, at 37, Pace became Secretary of the Army, served until the Eisenhower Administration came in, when he joined General Dynamics. Independently wealthy, Pace is a skilled golfer (high 70s), champion tennis player and all-round athlete who works as hard as he plays...
...skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into the 70s and the golf score descended toward...
Even in Dr. Kountz's enthusiastic estimation, hormones do not suffice in themselves. He cites a depressed man in his 70s. "On hormones, he started coming around, but something was still bothering him. We found out that he was an inveterate gambler. I got him a job with a stock and bond company, and it made him a young man again. In four years he made $200,000. Now he's 93 and retired in Florida. He says his biggest regret is that he didn't grow old sooner...
...become proficient in the sport of roller skating (newly imported from America), had the Prince of Wales at her Sunday afternoon parties. Lord Kitchener, with his splendid mustachios, occasionally walked alongside when, in her 60s. Skittles made her parade through Hyde Park in a Bath chair. In her 70s, living in quiet respectability as Mrs. Bailey, she was deaf and partially blind, but "unconquered in talk" when old friends came to chat. In 1920 Skittles died; she was past 80 and "comfortably unrepentant...
...recovery, the President's physicians held two days of consultations and then-at a press conference-described his condition and outlined his prospects for the immediate future. The patient, said Boston Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, is progressing satisfactorily. He looks and feels well; his temperature, pulse (low 70s) and blood pressure (132 over 80) are normal, and his circulation is excellent. His spirits and morale are good, his mind alert. In order to keep him "from bubbling over and to protect his heart from his overactive brain," he is given a small dose of sedatives when he awakens...