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...enough to be her grandfather, but spry is hardly the word for the pace he sets. After four months of marriage, Joan Martin Douglas, 23, reported that she could keep up-just barely-with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65. "I'm taking vitamin pills," confessed the jurist's third wife. "Some people wondered how my husband would keep up with me, but I can't think of a minute when he isn't doing something constructive, speaking, writing, hiking or putting up storm windows." Hiking was the toughest part: "I'm all right...
...lengthening lifespan and medical wonders, death may take on connotations of failure. Whose failure, or what kind of failure, is not at all clear, but the essence of the feeling is there. As Jerome Bruner puts it, "Death today has become somehow impersonal and unnecessary, perhaps like a fatal vitamin deficiency that might have been prevented or at least delayed...
...they can get their hands on (TIME, Oct. 12), do not chew enough lead to make them ill immediately. In most children it simply accumulates in their bones. But summer sunshine on their skins sets off biochemical changes in their systems-for one thing, it boosts their supply of vitamin D. Summer is also a time of growth spurts, when the development of new bone calls for a fast turnover of calcium-and lead rides alongside the calcium into the bloodstream, to attack the nervous system and the brain itself...
...demonstrating that the anti-scurvy vitamin is ascorbic acid, which he extracted by the pound from peppers...
Aside from a feeling of social wellbeing, the only proven beneficial effect of sunning is the formation of vitamin D-something already in plentiful supply in the normal U.S. diet. In some cases, the sun also helps in clearing up acne and eczema, but excess exposure leaves the skin wrinkled, coarse and leathery like the back of a cowboy's neck. In a study directed by Dermatologist John M. Knox of Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas...