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...December 1972, two months before reaching age 70 and mandatory retirement, Martin Weisbrod, an attorney in the Chicago office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, brought suit in federal court, declaring that the civil service provision forcing him out of his job was unconstitutional. Though Weisbrod was rehired on a temporary basis under a special federal provision, he has continued to press his case, and last week the American Medical Association an nounced that it will join his suit as a friend of the court...
...incompetent person." Compulsory retirement, the medical group insists, can be a prime factor in an older person's physical and emotional deterioration. Conversely, work after age 65 can improve life expectancy, increase physical and emotional stamina, even boost earning power. "I'm not built for retirement," declares Weisbrod flatly. "I don't want to sit on a park bench." Thousands of aged Americans would probably echo that sentiment...
...sensitive Christian Weisbrod, at 26, had a bright future on the East German stage. He was the youngest member of the eminent Berliner Ensemble, the theater company famed for its productions of Bertolt Brecht's acid satires. Yet Weisbrod was not happy...
Perhaps he did. His friends in the Berliner Ensemble may have jeered at him as a fool for returning, or perhaps acidly criticized him for bringing the police around to question their possible complicity. No one will ever be certain, for Christian Weisbrod was quite dead when they found his body in East Berlin's 13th century Marienkirche. He had swallowed pesticide...
...CARL B. WEISBROD ('65) Cornell University Ithaca...