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Teddy Tong, Andy Calkins and Stephanie Jacob--Dunster Library...
...potent combination of sentiment, shrewdness and pure political muscle whisked the bill through the House, and it seems destined to pass the Senate as well, either at the end of this session or early next year. Indeed, Senator Jacob Javits, 73, is preparing an amendment that would completely phase out mandatory retirement over a five-year period. This abrupt, stunning legislative success is the hallmark of another revolt in America, this time by the aged. The 1960s was the decade of aroused youth; the 1970s may well belong to their grandparents. Some 23 million Americans, about 10% of the population...
...words: de Gaulle, Nehru, Ben-Gurion, Willa Cather ("Aunt Willa...a rock of strength and sweetness"), Bela Bartok ("a composer to bear comparison with the giants of the past"), the family's Italian cook, a hotel porter in Leipzig, Solzhenitsyn, Glenn Gould ("that most exotic of my colleagues") and Jacob Epstein ("like his sculptures, he seemed as if God had formed him with a few grand strokes, not attending much to detail...
...last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent from the hearing, Lee Metcalf said little and Republican Ted Stevens' sentiments were unclear). Among Lance's critics, Javits turned out to be one of the most effective...
Although Rudd provided no explanation for his surrender, it clearly was time for him to come in from the cold. The war that he had opposed ended two years ago without setting off the revolution he had expected. His father, Jacob Rudd, a former Army officer who sells real estate in suburban Maplewood, N.J., and had not seen his son for seven years, speculated about Mark's motives: "He's 30 years old. You get too old to be a revolutionary...