Word: great-grandchildren
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...quit in 1950 and lived on. Proudly, he counted his five great-grandchildren, but most of his friends were gone; he had passed through the dreary years when an old man watches his world die around him. Last year even the Athletics left him; their franchise moved to Kansas City. Sick at heart from the bickering that marked the sale of his team, laid up with a broken hip, his mind drifting steadily toward the past, the old gentleman was still Mr. Baseball. Even young men who had never seen Connie Mack on the field understood how much had passed...
...Cabinet comings and goings, a new Finance Minister shouldered the burden of coping with inflation-ridden Brazil's nagging economic problems. Minister José Maria Whitaker is a pink-cheeked, white-mustached. 76-year-old Sāo Paulo banker with 13 children, 68 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Brazilians took heart from his promise to avoid "hasty solutions," and from his reputation as a hardheaded financier. A columnist called the appointment "an unexpected miracle," and the free-market cruzeiro climbed from 86 per dollar to 80, about where it stood on the eve of the earthquake...
Living happily in his old house, surrounded by 19 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, the old man seems to many of his followers the most convincing case history in support of Jungian theories. Has Jung himself achieved individuation? Says he: "Individuation means to become what one is really meant...
...children present except Elliott (expected later). For exercise she no longer rides horseback through the Putnam County woods, but often strolls over the countryside with her two Scotties, one a grandson of F.D.R.'s famed Fala. Looking ahead, Eleanor Roosevelt, who has already accumulated 19 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, anticipates lots more of life, no neatly defined hereafter. Said she: "There is some kind of immortality, though I don't know what kind of shape immortality takes. And I don't worry about...
...feature that Dr. Dunbar observed in the lives of all centenarians was that they had kept busy. A banker who turned over his business at the age of 100 to his son immediately became active as an organizer of boys' clubs. A woman of 113 was putting several great-grandchildren in succession through college with earnings from needlework. Reasoned Dr. Dunbar: "Retirement and enforced education in leisure defeat their own goal. Those who remain healthy after age 65 wish to work, and they stay healthy because they work...