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Show How Old? Age Figures Don't Tell ATHENS, Ga. Dr. A. S. Edwards, Ed-wards, head of the University of Georgia psychology department, reports a gadget that measures a finger's tremors up, down and sideways (his own Invention), has proved that a man is not obsolete obso-lete just because he Is old. He reasoned that a steady hand and an erect frame have more to do with fitness for skilled work than age figures. He set out to measure them with the tronom-eter tronom-eter with hundreds of subjects. He listed them as of college age (16 to 35); senescents (60 to 85, In good health), and seniles (54 to 90, in ill health). He found that senescents had little more finger tremor than the younger group, and in many cases were -steadier. But among seniles finger tremor increased an average of 300 per cent. |