Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start with a healthy heart," said Boston's Dr. Paul Dudley White, 76, elder statesman of cardiology, "physical labor or exercise apparently helps to keep it healthy. There is no evidence, that mental work per se causes heart disease, although in excess it may lead to neglect of proper health habits, and thus perhaps favor the early development of heart disease. The best antidote for the harmful effects of intensive mental work is vigorous physical labor or exercise...
...text were cut to get the film down to three hours. The play, a long slice of O'Neill self-fictionalized autobiography, deals with the bedeviled Tyrone family-the mother a pitiful dope addict, the father a stingy sot, the younger son a tuberculosis victim, and the elder son a cynical lush...
Taking His Time. Taft's emergence into national politics at this time was carefully considered. Ohio Republicans had urged him to seek his father's Senate seat ever since the elder Taft died in 1953. Young Bob insisted he was not yet ready. He had a famous name, all right, and a solid background: a bachelor of arts degree from Yale ('39), a law degree from Harvard ('42), four years of naval service in which he was a junior officer at invasions in the Pacific, Mediterranean and Normandy, a successful Cincinnati law practice. His family (Wife...
Harkins got into the Army by accident. Born in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston in 1904, he was the second of five children of Edward Harkins. a reporter and drama critic on Boston newspapers for 50 years. The elder Harkins, who is now 90, had his own ideas of what was culturally best for his three sons, and for Boston. Paul's brother, Philip, now a novelist in California, remembers grimly that "every Friday afternoon he made all of us go to the Boston Symphony, where we had to sit without moving or wriggling on the hardest wooden...
...Pakistanis want a system that is more genuinely democratic than any thing envisaged by Ayub. The great majority of all elected candidates are former members of banned parties. At least 100 belonged to the old Moslem League, whose leader in West Pakistan is none other than Ayub's elder brother. Sardar Bahadur Khan. Moslem Leaguer Bahadur is outspokenly critical of his brother's contention that political parties, when restored, should be confined to "like-minded people" within the National Assembly, where his Moslem Leaguers will probably have a two-thirds majority...