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...poetic ideal, but in real life, according to recent studies in Chicago, people are more likely to survive into a ripe old age if they are grouchy and pugnacious. Passive senior citizens seem to lack the moxie necessary to deal with all the natural shocks that aging flesh is heir...
...Rightful Heir. The climax of Sadat's diplomatic maneuvering took place last month, when he met in Cairo with Syria's President Hafez Assad and persuaded him to join in a plan of limited war. The two leaders also staged a reconciliation with Jordan's King Hussein and accepted him as a limited partner in the coming battle; they apparently agreed, however, that Jordan was too vulnerable to Israeli airpower to warrant direct Jordanian intervention. The Palestinians were not directly involved in the planning, but Sadat announced that he favored the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both...
...plan for stemming the Israeli advance from the canal? Would his people forgive him if, in the end, Egypt's armies were to suffer another battlefield defeat? No one could say. But for the moment he was his nation's hero and Nasser's rightful heir...
...about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent that ever loved his father...
...Which one of you am I going to be engaged to tomorrow?" teased Britain's Prince Charles as a gaggle of giggling housewives greeted him at the start of a day's grouse shooting in Scotland. Obviously, like the housewives, the bachelor heir to the British throne had been reading the latest spate of speculation about his marital plans. Currently supposed to be the leading choice as his future Queen: Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, daughter of the seventh Duke of Wellington. But then, Bonnie Prince Charlie is also rumored to be fond of Rose Clifton, 21, whose father...