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Wills have been written on everything from the walls of Egyptian tombs to the back of a bridge score card. A Canadian farmer, pinned fatally under a tractor, scratched his last testament on its fender (which now duly reposes among the local archives); a dying California oldster scrawled his on the petticoat of an obliging nurse...
This year's medicare plan is a twin to last year's proposal, which was killed by a 52-to-48 vote in the Senate. The Administration has made only two detectable changes. One would extend coverage to 2,500,000 more oldsters by including everyone over 65, instead of only those eligible to receive social security or railroad retirement benefits. The other would give the elderly a choice between a couple of new coverage plans: the first would provide 45 days of free hospital care; the second would provide up to 180 days of care...
...shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists who, he says, display their contempt for discipline and craftsmanship by deliberately using materials that are doomed to perish...
...society that tends to judge who a man is by what he does, the vigorous oldster suffers a special stress. Says Boston Gerontologist Natalie Cabot: "Nobody ever suddenly becomes Negro or Jewish, but people do suddenly become retired. They become a minority almost overnight, and it hits them hard, usually within the first three weeks." A retired man finds himself not only without a job but without an "identification tag'': someone accustomed to thinking of himself as a railroad man or an insurance executive is often seriously disoriented when he finds that he is no longer anything...
...unlike Sun City, it is nonprofit and consists entirely of apartments. Furthermore, medical consultation is provided as part of the package (but no hospitalization or drugs), and its pastel-colored, concrete-block buildings are designed for a lower-income-level oldster (apartments start at $70.50). Senior Citizens began moving into the Fresno village last December, and today more than three-quarters of the 557 units are occupied. The second of what is planned as a chain of such villages is under construction-the Portals Senior Citizens Village, some 100 miles north of Los Angeles...