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...said, who likes to see younger men brought to the forefront and given an opportunity in the top jobs, so that their vitality and ideas can be employed in solving the nation's problems. Then there was another consideration. No President in history, Ike said, had reached his 70th birthday in the White House. The presidency was a grueling job, he said; it worked a certain physical erosion on a man.- Ike's remarks left the Ohioans completely bewildered...
...government officials, Molotov and Mikoyan, but even, in some respects, to his subordinate: Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Bulganin learned self-effacement in the hardest school of all: Joseph Stalin's, where self-effacement was often the price of survival. On the dictator's 70th birthday, every member of the Politburo was required to compose a paean of praise for the Soviet newspapers. Khrushchev contrived to include 45 separate mentions of Stalin's name and Malenkov 57, but Bulganin topped them all. He mentioned the boss 108 times in his piece-easily a record...
...leading the stacking horse" when the hay was harvested. In an essay on military training, written in grade school, young Burke said: "This training teaches one of the greatest problems of success: discipline . . . War methods change, but the necessity for discipline never changes." He entered Annapolis at 17, graduated 70th in the class of 1923, later earned a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan...
Good Show. Directing his 70th movie, DeMille, on the set, puts on one of the great shows in show business. A retinue of eleven follows him wherever he goes. He is attended by an associate producer, a personal female aide, a couple of press-agents, a dialogue director, two script girls, a secretary, an assistant director, a mike boy to thrust a microphone before his mouth whenever he feels like really thinking out loud, and a chair boy to slip a chair under him whenever he feels (in the manner of Queen Victoria) in the mood for sitting...
...melodramatic trappings, e.g., the threat of torture (the use of which was never remotely contemplated, according to De Santillana), the drama of the Inquisition lies in Galileo's abject recantation of his life's work. For this, Author de Santillana offers plausible reasons. Galileo was in his 70th year, ill and afraid. Moreover, he was a devout Catholic. "He had realized at last that the authorities were not interested in truth but only in authority . . . Moralist historians . . . forget that he was a member of the Apostolic Roman communion and had to submit in some...