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...79th birthday, and ready for more work ("Unending public chores seem to have become my privilege in life"), Herbert Hoover talked of his high hopes for the Federal Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, which he will head. Said he: "[Perhaps] the commission can contribute something to lessen what President Eisenhower has aptly described as our 'staggering economic burdens'. . . strengthen private enterprise, reduce the burdens of taxation, lessen bureaucratic tyranny over our citizens and generally improve the efficiency of our government...
...most virulent attack on the Congressional investigating committees was made before 17,000 people at the 79th annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators. The group is a division of the National Education Association...
Author Somerset Maugham, who once said that the public respects an old writer for his age and not necessarily for his work went to the Riviera villa of his friend the Aga Khan to celebrate his 79th birthday. For the occasion, he had a further observation: "The public gets used to a writer . . . Longevity also allows a writer, if he's old enough, to influence three generations of readers. But it isn't having written a lot that makes one respected. What makes a writer and what makes him a success is, in my opinion, solely his personality...
Zesty as a two-year-old rounding into the stretch, Britain's aged Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week entered his 79th year enthusiastically agallop on all his old hobbies. Unlike his gelding Non-Stop, which won only second place in the races at Kempton Park on the eve of his birthday, the Old Warrior himself spent the week in top form, smiting parliamentary enemies with one hand and holding the shredded remnants of a vanished empire together with the other. He did admit that several American admirers had been sending him rejuvenating pills...
...because if the Republicans win this election it will be a long time before you see another structure of this kind." This statement brought forth from the "Truth Squad" the assertion that the Republican-controlled 80th Congress had appropriated more money for Hungry Horse than had the Democratic-controlled 79th Congress. Replied Eisenhower: "Anyone who thinks I am not interested in flood control and all the reclamation projects that we have in sight ... is just talking through...