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Show CHAMP. CLARK HAS SET A LIMIT Washington. May 31. Representative Representa-tive Champ (lark of Missouri, Ihe minority leader of the house, has set for himself an approximate ago limit lim-it in public life, at about 75 years of ago. "The people may set my time of re-llrenient re-llrenient a little earlier than that." ho suggested laughingly when discussing dis-cussing political age-limits with a newspaperman- today. -'So far as I know the only public man who set au age limit on-his service and lived up to It was Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, speaker and senator," said Mr. Clark. "When in his prime ho set the exact ago at which he would rellre. When that day arrived, ho was Jn tho middle of a senatorial term, but kept his word and resigned. He was one of the greatest meu of that era." |