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...pelted the Administration. Some of them Roosevelt could shrug off; others were far from laughable: Father Coughlin, who described himself as "a religious Walter Winchell" and believed that all bankers were devils and Jewish bankers the most devilish of the lot; Dr. Francis Townsend, who proposed to give every oldster over 60 a pension of $200 a month with the proviso that he spend it within the month; Huey Long, Louisiana's "messiah of the rednecks," who, in a rare moment of insight, called himself "a wedded man with a storm for my bride...
...strength of an oldster's sexual life, the psychiatrists found, depends on his general strength: if he suffers from a serious disease, his sexual power wanes along with his other powers. It also depends on the strength of his sexual drive earlier in life. Without exception, the people who rated their drive strong in youth rated it moderate in old age; the people who rated it weak in youth found it absent...
Most controversial figure of all is the doorman, usually an impressively mustached oldster who expects at least 2 rubles (20?) for opening the door, and is in a position to grant favors, for when the restaurant is full he locks the door and reopens it only as the spirit moves him. Literature and Life suggested abolishing doormen...
Acknowledging the cheers of thousands of peasants who had come swarming into Gangad from 50 miles around, Nehru alighted from his car outside a yellow brick schoolhouse and strode up the gravel path to greet the man he had traveled this distance to see: Vinoba Bhave, a skinny, penniless oldster with sunken cheeks, a wispy white mustache and beard (TIME Cover...
...vessels harden (arteriosclerosis). Muscles weaken. Bones grow brittle. Eyes and ears gradually fail, from a number of complex, minute structural changes. Ironically, the teeth-such as are left of them -become more resistant to decay in later life. On empirical evidence, Shakespeare anticipated microanatomy when he said that the oldster is "sans taste," for the average number of taste buds is 208 during the prime of life, but only 88 after...