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Martha Clarke, a retired schoolteacher in the mythical town of Homochitto, Miss., still lives in the family homestead. But now, in her mid-70s, she is almost blind and beginning to turn senile. Picking their way past a Spanish oak tree and a small jungle of cane and Virginia creeper, Martha's nephews and nieces stage a meeting of the clan in the ancestral manse. While she sits in her period rocker, they discuss their Aunt Martha problem as if she were as inanimate as the leather classics in the glass bookcases about them. "Isn't it strange...
...money and McNamara. The former Defense Secretary could never be persuaded of AMSA's immediate merit. He argued that the current B-52s and the troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development time and intelligence estimates. Under normal circumstances, it would take eight to ten years to develop and deploy AMSA...
MOZART: CONCERTO NO. 17 (RCA Victor). Artur Rubinstein has made long series of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin recordings, but only in his mid-70s is he turning to Mozart, who did not live long enough to grow old. The best modern Mozart interpretation demands more crispness, but Rubinstein's performance has its own serene and sunny logic. He is accompanied by Alfred Wallenstein and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra...
Symington is the first choice of Harry Truman's dwindling band of intimates and. as the man who has made no ene mies, stands No. 2 on nearly every other list. Last week handsome, athletic Stu Symington was playing golf (mid-70s) in Puerto Rico, still keeping his silence, still making no enemies. But there is a peril in his policy: if Symington has given no one reason to be against him. neither has he given anyone much reason...
This advertisement, with the rare privilege of Page One prominence by the New York Times, got results. One was that a New Yorker now in his mid-70s wrote to the advertiser (the Radioactivity Center of M.I.T.) and told his story. About 30 years ago he was working as a salesman, playing the guitar for relaxation. When he began to feel run down, a friend suggested a radium tonic to pep him up. His doctor saw nothing against it-for these were the days when many medical men were playing fast and loose with radium preparations, knowing and recking nothing...