Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tasks as well. International Executive Service Corps was started in 1964 to give retired executives employment as business advisers in developing countries, where the living is not usually easy. In these prickly circumstances, the outcast executives have thrived. They have served on 5,000 projects in 62 different countries. "Age is no factor," says Saul Eisenberg, volunteer recruiter. One man went to Zaire to advise on marketing procedures when he was 82. So far only one executive has had to come home because of a physical disability. "Older people can take the rigors that anybody can," says Eisenberg...
...successfully negotiated ?along with Sol Linowitz?a new Panama Canal treaty. Explains Bunker: "I don't think there is any age limitation on a person's usefulness. It depends entirely on the individual." At 71, Averell Harriman negotiated the atomic test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. At 85, he continues to offer sage counsel to the less experienced Carter Administration...
...Pepper, the bill must vividly recall another piece of legislation for the aging that came earlier in his career. When he ran for his first full Senate term in 1938, Pepper urged the passage of the "Townsend Plan," which called for a $200-a-month payment to everyone over 60 who agreed to retire, regardless of need. Though the plan was defeated, political pressure for it was in part responsible for the passage in 1935 of the public assistance and old-age insurance provisions of the Social Security...
Smathers won and forced Pepper from political office until 1962, when redistricting in the Miami area created a new congressional opportunity. Pepper ran and won, becoming a freshman Congressman at the tender age of 62. In his 15 years in the House, Pepper has missed few floor votes. He has continued, on balance, to support social action programs. As MIMS a staffer explains, "He still believes, as he did during the New Deal, that the Government can correct injustices and right wrongs...
...months ago, he officially indicated that he will run for his House seat again in 1978. Says he proudly: "I haven't noticed any perceptible diminution of my abilities to do a job I have done for a long, long time." (One concession to his age: a hairpiece purchased early this year.) About possible retirement for himself, Pepper jokes, "I tell people I'm planning on the year 2000, but I could change my mind if I feel well. They can't sell a fellow out when he still moves with considerable alacrity...