Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University Health Services (UHS) is investigating several recent cases of salmonella poisoning which may have been contracted in the Freshman Union, Dr. Sholem Postel, assistant director of UHS, said yesterday...
Such discussion only added to the pressures on the assembled Cardinals to consider both health and age more significant in their decision than either had been before. In Rome, a Cardinal was overheard reporting, "I'm over 70. But I feel great. I've got a good pulse, and blood pressure...
...Health and age were clearly linked. At first it seemed the need for a robust Pope might eliminate the previous rule of thumb that made 60 an absolute minimum age for a new Pope. But this idea receded as the week progressed, partly because tradition is not easily abandoned in the church, and because the Cardinals are only too aware of the unpredictability of human life and death. (It was recalled that Leo XIII was notably frail but lived to be 93. When a well-wisher said to him, "May you live to be 100," he replied...
Concern about age may dim entirely the already faint prospects of England's eloquently spiritual George Basil Hume, 55, although Hume's palpable star quality-his strong point-could prove more important than either age or health. Said the African Curialist, Bernardin Gantin, "All the Cardinals have seen and lived the charisma of John Paul. Those great crowds of people will be present at this conclave." Remarked a leading Italian Jesuit: "Better than a medical test, they should give each papabile [candidate] a TV test...
...said the graduate program for public policy, involving the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate Schools of Education, Design and Public Health, was "the largest and most important new initiative that has taken place at Harvard" in the last few years...