Word: septuagenarian
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...spending about half a million dollars to bring back a forty-five year old show is vaguely disconcerting. Broadway has been sick for a while now, and Nanette's backers probably have dollar signs painted on their teeth. But perhaps it is worth it. Perhaps the glint in a septuagenarian eye, a glint meaning, "We do have it in us," justifies the gargantuan cosmic folly of putting on an expensive, frivolous revival. If it doesn't, then Broadway is sicker than it thinks...
...acceptable cancan. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth loved it. That party was staged in Manhattan more than a decade ago. This year's birthday celebration, "a biggish affair with family and close friends," according to the palace's description, will be one fully befitting a royal septuagenarian. Seventy is stately and sugary, according to Cecil Beaton's official photo portrait, which shows the smiling Queen Mother in diamonds and pearls against a backdrop of flowering rhododendron...
...1960s." There was a sense that a new corner had been turned, that a different standard of ethics was operating, that the new trend would continue. Tallahassee's Judge G. Harrold Carswell seemed relatively certain of Senate confirmation, and Southerners believed that with more vacancies to come as septuagenarian Justices depart, "strict constructionism" will be well represented. If HEW's power continues to sink, the administrative push needed to enforce the law in individual cases will suffer accordingly...
Both Laird and Nixon believe that General Lewis Hershey, the crotchety septuagenarian who directs Selective Service, should be removed. An adamant opponent of the lottery draft system, Hershey's inveterate hawkishness has made him a symbol to the young of all that is wrong with the draft. For his part, Laird believes that a military man should not head Selective Service. Yet Hershey has some powerful friends on Capitol Hill, so Nixon is likely to wait at least until his bill passes through Congress, if it does, before easing the petulant Hershey into retirement...
...Joiner, then a septuagenarian wildcatter, opened up the great East Texas oilfields in 1930 when he brought in his gusher, Daisy Bradford No. 3. Legend has it that soon afterward he lost oil leases worth $100 million in a three-day card game. "Anything you hear about the boom towns won't be an exaggeration," says H. L. Hunt, the multimillionaire, who remembers that holdup men were so common that he and his partners would always walk single file and 16 feet apart when they went to town. The reason, he explains, was that "the bandits wouldn...