Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon...
...reason of their strength-and '-' modern medicine-more and more Americans are living beyond the Biblical threescore years and ten, and beyond fourscore. What makes for a long life? What makes a long life livable? And useful? In this week's cover story on Nonagenarian Amos Alonzo Stagg, Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant reports on the medical progress that has prolonged human life. To supplement the story, TIME presents a gallery of U.S. elders, photographed by LIFE'S Alfred Eisenstaedt (who is only 59). "Eisie," who has probably photographed more famous people than any other photographer, carried...
...Republicans have long depended on the small farming town as the center of their Midwestern strength. But recent years have seen a population trend away from the farm town to the cities. Indeed, with U.S. industry growing rapidly in the farm states, the importance of the farm vote itself has diminished. As a dramatic example, in Kansas, for years an absolute citadel of Republican-voting farmers, agriculture now ranks as seventh among the state's sources of personal income. ¶Farmers are especially sensitive to the inflationary effects of big-labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union...
...island of Corn Belt Democratic strength (it was the only non-Southern state to go against Dwight Eisenhower in 1956), Missouri has ten Democratic Representatives, only one Republican. Second District (St. Louis) Republican Incumbent Thomas Curtis is in real trouble against Lawyer James L. Sullivan, former chief counsel for Thomas Hennings' Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency. Curtis has been badly hurt by a migration to his heavily suburban district of workers from heavily Democratic South St. Louis...
Locked Door. The conclave will begin Oct. 25, end only when a new Pope is chosen. By week's end it appeared that perhaps 50 of the 55 surviving members of the Sacred College (full strength: 70) would attend the conclave. Of the Iron Curtain cardinals, only Poland's Wyszynski seemed likely to come to Rome. Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, living in the American legation in Budapest, and Yugoslavia's Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, ailing and confined to his village, almost surely cannot attend. Other doubtful participants: France's Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, and Chile...