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...first time in his four-year reign that Pope John XXIII was seriously ill. The Vatican, canceling all papal audiences a few days after the Pontiff's 81st birthday, at first reported that the Pope had a case of influenza. But the real trouble, it said later, was a gastric illness that had provoked a "rather intense anemia." There was speculation, although no confirmation, that he had an ulcer. Put to bed and on a strict diet, he seemed cheerier after a few days...
Still erect and handsome, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur celebrated his 81st birthday in Manhattan as guest of honor at the 14th annual reunion of the senior officers of his World War II Southwest Pacific Area Command. The stag dinner, which is always held on MacArthur's birthday, is virtually his only public appearance. So successfully has the old soldier faded away that he never gives an interview, seldom leaves his Waldorf Towers hermitage, even to preside as board chairman at executive meetings of Sperry Rand Corp...
Radcliffe's 81st year began officially yesterday with the formal opening of the College at 4 p.m. in the Cambridge Congregational Church. Addressing students in the College and the Radcliffe Graduate School were Kathleen O. Elliott, dean of Instruction, Janet Webster '59, president of the Student Government Association, and Wilbur K. Jordan, president of the College...
...easy to leave the world, Santayana wrote, once we know what it is. If Santayana was suggesting a satiety of the mind, André Gide, in his 81st year, was more keenly aware of a flagging of the senses. He had discovered a word from the Greek for it, anorexia (lack of appetite), but he added: "I find it hard to console myself for not knowing Greek...
...House can adopt its own rules in each Congress. Their proof: the House of Representatives does so, and "the identical constitutional provision cannot reasonably be given a different interpretation as applied to the Senate." The anti-filibuster leaders argue that the Russell Amendment was an improper effort by the 81st Congress to impose its rules on all succeeding Senates...