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Show V t K A 1 PJIWiCE'S SPECIAL by LLOYD SHEARER TIM OF 2rSid to riorum hlLuLflJlU President become of the United States? The Constitution says he must he at least 35, hut it provides no maximum. President Gerald Ford will 'he 63 on July 14, 1976. Cl Cl BECAUSE OF VOLUME OF VAIL RECEIVED. Party Presidential will reach age sweep-stake- s, 68 July 8, 1976. the Democratic side, "1he oldest potential Presidential candidate is Sen. Hubert Humphrey on On ABOUT THIS COLUMN which would also start thinking of amending the Constitution. Perhaps age 60 or 62 should become the maximum qualifying age for Presi- Feh. 6, 1976. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, a doubtful entrant in the Republican IT CANNOT ANSWER QUERIES its president surely legislate some system of subjecting each candiate to a thorough physical and mental exa- 65 on PARADE REGRETS unaruLJu u hire as or chief executive officer Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller, or Hubert Humphrey. Each would be eliminated on the basis of age. Why should this not apply to the Presidency of the United States? Since it does not, we should try to replace Ford, will he Ronald Reagan, who seeks nrjcr'p LfliViJc rr II 4 , i mination. Congress might 4 dential and Vice Presidential candidates. J of Minnesota. Humphrey will he 65 on May 27, 1976. have no spring chickens in this group of men. We They are all right smack in the winter of their lives. 'oldest to assume the U.S. Presidency was William Henry Harrison, 'who entered office at age The man in March, 1841. Harrison caught pneumonia on 68 Inauguration Day and died a month later. President Zachary Taylor took office in 1849 at age 64. Taylor died a year later. Dwight Eisenhower, inaugurated in 1953 at age 62, suffered The U.S. Presidency is surely one of the most difficult and demanding jobs in the world. It calls for a man in the full flower of his mental and physical powers. It requires or should a man in the prime of his life. There is hardly a major corporation in this 4 Do O strikes serve social progress? Strike statistics from Germany, France, England and Italy during the years prove they do not. The countries with the 1968-7- 3 greatest number of strikes (England and Italy) showed the smallest increase in income as well as the highest rates of inflation and currency devaluation. On the other hand, the real fewer the strikes, the greater the social productivity. Germany and France to a certain degree attained the highest rates of national product growth with accompanying lower a heart attack and acute ileitis, had his office looked after by Sherman Adams and Richard Nixon. 28. -fro nir DIL-IC- rates of inflation and increased currency values. The following chart from the Statistical Bureau of the European Community gives the following strike figures: STRIKE DAYS PER 100 WORKERS 1969-197- 4 INCREASE OF THE NATIONAL PRODUCT PER CAPITA IN $ 1968-197- 3 The U.S. c::ifc a sensitive, sophisticated, C2FBD ultrasecret base near Alice Springs, right smack in the center of desert Australia. The base is called Pine Gap. It is used for the de- tection and surveillance miof Soviet land-basssiles. It is equipped with ed such supersensitive heat and sensory devices incorporated into satellites, that as soon as the Soviets uncover their missile silos for test . shots, the warning is flashed back to Washington from Pine Gap. The base is also used to receive messages and drops from our reconnaissance satellites which traverse the Soviet RATE OF INFLATION (ANNUAL AVERASE) runs warning devices there and take a chance on the I eventual stabilization of Australian political life, or do we move everything to, say, the island of Guam? Pine Gap is probably the most important defense facility Pacific have in the we its crucial to our defense planning that is and one of the most important questions our Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld will have to ponder. Shall we stay in Australia or move out while the moving is good? new I Of COMKWWEUTH JOINT DEFENCE FACILITY SPACE RESEARCH Union taking photographs every few minutes. leave our early Do we JOWTIV tSTMUStNO DEPARTMENT OF U WolATtO DEFENCE MOTED STATES ADVANCED DESCARCH IT AND PROJECTS AGENCY TRESPASSING UPON THIS LAND IS PROHIBITED Since Australia is rapidly becoming a polit- ically unstable country, what do we do about Pine Gap? A TO SIGN GUARDS APPROACHES PINE GAP EARLY WARNING BASE coun- - Li |
