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...Grandchildren. The wedding dress was chosen several weeks ago in the bride-to-be's bedroom, where, as Luci popped out of the adjoining sitting room wearing one or another of the gowns under consideration, her mother would nibble a sandwich and sip ice tea between such comments as "A lovely neckline" or "That detail is pretty." One outfit prompted Lady Bird to exclaim: "That's an elegant dress-the kind you would hand down to your grandchildren." And that was the one Luci selected. The design (an exclusive from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus) will be kept...
...50th reunion class -- 300 alumni, wives, and widows -- then went on to talk about their banks in St. Joseph, Mo., their grandchildren at school in Concord, their own longevity, and how they took up tennis at age 52 to stay...
...What is wrong with these young people? If young men their age weren't dying in Asia, these college boys' children and grandchildren might end up spending their time conducting self-criticism sessions in a commune rather than dreaming up ways to beat the draft. I had a privileged education-Choate '53 and Yale '57, but the greatest privilege I've had was 3½ years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. I'll serve again if need...
Gerber, as well as its competitors, is also eying the potentially rich geriatrics market, which now accounts for about 8% of sales. Old folks like easily digested baby foods. But they are embarrassed to buy them, usually shove the cans or jars along supermarket counters with the explanation that grandchildren are coming to visit. The baby-food firms understandably have been reluctant to try the hard sell in the delicate old folks' market. But it would be no great surprise if, one of these days, oldsters were to start getting letters from Mrs. Dan Gerber, grandmother...
...though his multimillion-dollar publishing company still demands most of his worktime, and his family-three children and six grandchildren-most of his playtime, Berlin refuses to turn in his keyboard, never looks back for long. "The past is fine," he is fond of saying, "but you can't live there...