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Nowadays Pepper must face the same test that all elderly people who are working do: Can he handle the job? Chairing the Select Committee on Aging, Pepper is guiding through Congress the bill changing the mandatory-retirement laws. He is attacking this task as zestfully as he has countless others in his 28 years on the Hill. He has repeatedly raised the retirement issue in speeches and numerous articles on op-ed pages across the country...
...relentless as the toll of the years may be, doctors still find it extremely difficult to generalize about when old age begins. By popular reckoning in the U.S., the watershed year is 65. Yet there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating...
That may be an academic point. Local authorities can still block the Concorde from most airports. Moreover a strong threat arose last week that no more Concordes would ever be built. After a select committee of Parliament added up the staggering losses that the British government was likely to take on the present fleet (as much as $340 million), Aero space Minister Gerald Kaufman said that no more Concordes would be constructed unless there were profitable orders-which seems most unlikely...
...Health and the Environment is planning a hearing to consider possible amendments to the law. One, sponsored by the subcommittee chairman, Representative Paul Rogers of Florida, would force medical schools to expand their third-year classes by 5%-or ten students-whichever figure is greater, but would let them select the transfers themselves. Under another amendment, backed by the A.A.M.C., schools would choose their own transfer students and get paid for them as a bonus, but nobody would be required to take on third-year students...
...decision in favor of Bakke would open the door to a multitude of lawsuits by students who believe they have been wronged by admissions officers who use criteria other than grades and test scores. Such a decision would discourage admissions committees from examining the roles that the students they select will play in a multi-racial society in need of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. Even if it would not dissuade institutions from seeking qualified minority students, a decision for Bakke would deprive universities of the recruiting benefits that result from minority admissions programs, which for many minority...