Word: octogenarians
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...entrepreneur has long been an awesome political and financial power in the state. Lately, though, Ball's iron rule has been seriously challenged by some dissident trustees, including Alfred du Font's grandson, Alfred du Pont Dent. As a result, the crotchety octogenarian is now in the fight of his life, battling a series of legal moves to oust him and sell off part of the estate...
...patriotic duty by giving blood, for the Red Cross. So Barry plodded over to Memorial Hall, filled out his forms, sat in line, and assumed the old horizontal position for 20 minutes, as he lost a pint of blood. When he got up to leave, one of those octogenarian ladies who were born solely to serve at blood-drive centers came over to escort him to the congratulatory cookies-and-soda table...
...years of roving the globe. Now back home in Pawling, N. Y., he is hard at work on his 54th book-the second volume of his autobiography, So Long Until Tomorrow-and is also narrating a TV series called Lowell Thomas Remembers. Will the octogenarian ever take a rest? "I've thought of retiring at age 100," says Thomas. "But I've moved that...
...last day in Plains, Carter rose at 6:30 a.m. and gazed upon the dusting of snow and ice on the pine trees-the first in his octogenarian Uncle Alton's memory. While Rosalynn scrambled eggs and cheese, Jimmy fried the breakfast ham. Shortly before noon, he shut off the water and electricity, turned down the thermostat, and left the house in the care of a maid and the Secret Service. At the train depot, the Carters waved goodbye to the 18-car Peanut Special...
...octogenarian Sunday painter's first one-man show, and it opened, appropriately, at the center for labor studies in suburban Washington, D.C., named after George Meany (see BUSINESS & ECONOMY). The gruff AFL-CIO boss began dabbling with a paint-by-numbers set 21 years ago, and was soon devoting an hour a day to landscapes and still lifes of his own. He got the idea for Bermuda Race from a newspaper photo; Merry Christmas was inspired by a clown on a greeting card. One red, yellow and blue abstract dubbed Unfilled originated as a doodle. Meany confessed that...