Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Kenneth Galbraith, peripatetic ambassador, author, political adviser and now professor at Harvard, took the occasion of his 60th birthday for a bit of mental meandering. On age: "I shan't be sorry when men begin to refer to me as old. But I'll be awfully sorry when women do." On politics: "Don't go near any political headquarters. Except for a stirring at election time, they're a kind of grim repository of people who like politics and can't get jobs elsewhere." On the Washington scene: "No tourist should leave Washington without...
...expected, Hammond told a heart-disease symposium at Albany Medical College last week, the death rates after age 40 are higher for both men and women if they smoke cigarettes, if they are overweight, if they have high blood pressure, and if they don't exercise much. This holds true for deaths from both heart attacks and strokes...
...early-1800s English table from porcelain that had belonged to Madame du Barry and the Prince de Condé. The sitting room, library and foyer were crammed with rare 17th and 18th century furniture and objets d'art. When Wickes, a retired lawyer, died in 1964 at the age of 88, his heirs gave the $4,000,000 collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Some 800 selections from it go on view next week. They have been exquisitely installed, with the aid of Wickes' longtime caretaker, English-born Charles Taylor, in six rooms that duplicate...
...Bureau tabulation shows that rental vacancies in metropolitan areas fell to 4.9% during the first quarter of this year, the lowest level of the decade. The figure runs far lower in many places. One reason is the remarkable proliferation of huge apartment communities loaded with amenities for a leisure age. A swimming pool is no longer enough. In Houston, Developer Jenard Gross' latest 1,250-unit project will also have a shopping center, tennis courts, a gym and sauna baths, along with air-conditioned one-bedroom apartments for $150 a month. Some builders throw in a private cocktail lounge...
...sell Schrafft's to a broader clientele. To that end, for example, some of the New York City outlets are currently being remodeled to make their liquor-dispensing bars just as conspicuous as the familiar soda fountains. Such changes are aimed mainly at the 35-to-40 age group. "Our surveys show that these people are good spenders," says Shattuck. "They may not have very much money, but they spend...