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...divorce court. The median divorce age in the U.S. is 32. In the 40s and 50s, divorce is major surgery, and a man is reluctant to cut that much life out of his life. Besides, time sometimes taunts the older lover with the crudest of jests. Having roused the ardor of a younger woman, he may find himself no match for her physical demands and end up more ruefully conscious of his age than when he set out to refute...
George Romney evidently thinks so. As the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, with only Richard Nixon a serious rival, he has embraced Javits with a degree of ardor that some party pros consider unwise so early in the game. For, though Romney and Javits may look to many Midwestern Republicans like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Romney is well aware that he enjoys nowhere near as progressive a reputation as Javits does in the populous East. "Romney's got to get that Eastern liberal-Establishment to win," one of his aides admits candidly. "Javits is the key to that...
...Unwise Ardor. If Javits were indeed to win the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, what impact might he have? Conservatives, mostly south of the Ma-son-Dixon line and west of the Mississippi, argue that he would hurt the party. Actually, while he would no doubt hurt their feelings, it is hard to see how he could help but help. "His liberality bothers me," said Denver County G.O.P. Chairman John Wogan Jr., but he felt impelled to add: "Since the purpose is to win, we might have to take him." "Let's face it," said New Mexico's Republican Gubernatorial Candidate...
...This year he heeded the advice of the political-management firm of Spencer-Roberts to bring his image closer to center. Without abandoning any conservative fundamentals-his platform embraces "fiscal responsibility" and rejects open-housing legislation -Reagan conveyed the impression of a responsible, vigorous crusader with all of the ardor and none of the abrasiveness of a Goldwater. His "Creative Society" slogan projects affirmation rather than negativism...
Morning brings him a chirping plague of creditors, the numbing guilt of not loving a wife (Vivien Leigh) who is dying of tuberculosis, and the intrusive ardor of a romantic girl who is pursuing her own phantom of love. Around Ivanov, vivid, vulgar, irascibly self-absorbed neurotics drown boredom in vodka and talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. Ivanov punctuates their endless sentences with a bullet in his brain...