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...milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next month Hesburgh will surpass Guinness's current record holder, former President Herbert Hoover, who had 89. Hesburgh's 90th will come from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. That looks nice on the resume, but adds up to a problem in finding space for his colorful academic hoods and coming up with acceptance speeches. "It's difficult to tailor my remarks each time," says Father Hesburgh, "but I tell the students...
...SEEMED AS THOUGH each of the guests at Edward L. Bernays' 90th birthday party last Sunday was having his own personal celebration. Over 300 had come from all over America and the world, wanting both to celebrate Bernays' 9th decade and to reaffirm their friendships with him. Bernays, founder of the public relations profession and nephew of Sigmund Freud, was having hundreds of parties all at once. Adopting his favorite professorial stance, Bernays had this to say about becoming ninety: "We have a chronological age, a physiological age, a mental, societal and emotional age. To be sure, my chronological...
Beckford, who had finished 90th and 36th in her previous two years in competition, said afterwards, she was surprised at how good she had felt during the race. "I was huffing and puffing after the first hill, but I had a lot left towards the end. In the past years I could have crawled across the finish line...
...week, in his third encyclical, or formal policy-setting letter to the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul underlined those concerns, this time through the theme of human work. He had intended to issue the 24,000-word document, titled Laborem Exercens (On Working), last spring in connection with the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo Kill's encyclical Rerum Novarum, the first Catholic document devoted to social questions. Its release, however, had to await his recovery from the bullet wounds he suffered last May. "It is only after my stay in hospital," he explains at the end of the document...
...consistent themes: the duty of the rich to help the poor. John Paul was commemorating the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's pioneering social encyclical Rerum Novarum; the draft of the speech, which as usual John Paul had written himself, asserted that the encyclical "was not only a vigorous condemnation of the undeserved misery of working conditions of that time, in the early years of the Industrial Revolution, but above all, laid the foundation for a just solution to the problems of human coexistence, which go under the name of 'social problems.' " John Paul...