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...heavily lined. But the spring in his step, the athletic bearing and carriage, all were firm and strong, and the quick laugh and quicker grin marked a personality that had not lost its joy in life. "President Eisenhower," noted the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "entered his seventieth year this week, the first White House incumbent of that age who did not resemble the contemporary concept...
...historic address on his seventieth anniversary on October 19, 1929, I heard John Dewey say in New York, "...one of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, a career which somehow is congenial to one's own temperament. I have had the sheer luck or fortune to be engaged in the occupation of thinking; and while I am quite regular at my meals, I think that I may say that I would rather work, and perhaps even more, play, with ideas and with thinking than eat. That chance has been given...
...Honor and sixteen honorary degrees, Eliot next month will join France's small but select Academic Septentrionelle and take a seat left vacant since the death of Rudyard Kipling. Among the birthday salutes this week is a book of personal tributes (T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday; Farrar. Straus & Cudahy; $5). Its contributors, alongside the usual literary figures, include English schoolboys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18. most of whom sound so solemn and professional as to suggest that England is raising a generation of literary critics. But there are also many signs...
...steam and water spurts out at 1,140 m.p.h. The reaction, Michely claims, can push an airplane forward just as efficiently as a fuel-burning rocket, and much more cheaply. When electricity is used for heating, the same amount of thrust costs less than one-seventieth as much as with a solid-fuel rocket. Other heat sources would be even cheaper...
Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the School of Education, will report tomorrow on the recent White House Conference on Education at the seventieth annual meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in Boston's Hotel Statler...