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John Fitzgerald Rennedy (1901-?)

"I execute the Office

....

I will faithfully

DO solemnly swear that

of the President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of The United States."

With these words-the Presidential Oath of Offer-Jahn Kennedy jolns 33 other men la history.

Each of these men has brought his own ·idens of government to the nation's most important job. Being men, all have had their failures and dis- appointments along with glory.

A string of presidents before 1861 were help less to seal the fracture between the North and South. Lincoln was killed before he could see the two camps united in spirit after the Civil War. Johnson, who attempted to bring the North and South together again, saw his efforts frustrated by a vengeful Congress.

Theodore Roosevelt saw his progressive ideas turned aside. And Wilson could not persuade the nation that the course of world peace lay in world co-operation.

Seven presidents died in office, three af the hands of assassins.

Not for 135 years has a Massachusetts-born president lived in the White House. Now, John Kennedy, born in Boston, has stepped forward to bring his own convictions, personality and Inlents into the world's toughest job.

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It's a new phobia:

falling into

space

THE CHINA MAIL, · FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1961.

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James Madison, 1809

James Monroe, 1817

Andrew Jackson, 1829

Grover. Cleveland, 1885, 1893

Franklin Pierce, 1853

Ulyssca, S. Grant, 1869

WHEN YOU'VE BEEN IN THE TOP JOB

IT'S HARD TO FIND YOUR FEET AGAIN

AFTER John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as 35th President of

the United States today, outgoing President Dwight David By RICHARD O'FARRELL

Eisenhower will step from one of the world's highest political positions to relative obscurity.

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Many of the former tenants of the White Ilouse, having had their fill polities, and it almost in- their possible to return to profession, and follow other pursuits.

The two other living ex- Presidents, Truman (1915-

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3) and Hoover (1929-33) are widely published writers, and Eisenhower's much read Crusade Europe will be followed by his memoirs Executive.

Lecturer

Chief

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Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1953

Some of the ex-Presidents

To satisfy his creditors, turned to education.

the Civil War hero and two Millard Fillmore (1850- term President pawned his 53) became the first Chan: menuentoes of a lifetime. cellor of the University of his

souvenirs and gifts, Buffalo, while Rutherford even his swords. Hayes (1877-81) was

elected trustee of Ohio Memoirs

State university.

was

Herbert C. Houver, 1929

Woodrow Wilson, 1913

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Harry S. Truman 1945

newspaper live (1880-03), both widowers, found writes articles for a

and carries on plantation in Virginia and

voluminous correspondence, on the charity of his son-in-law romance after leaving the White syndicate in New York.

House.

Hoover halfway through his Nearing 63, Harrison wooed Antirew Jackson (1829-37)

eighties, still curries on a pro- left the White House with only and wed the 38-year-old 90 dollars in his pocket. Haggard of his first wife. They had one and crippled, Woodrow Wilson child, a daughter, born the year (1913-21) returned to a debt- after their marriage. free home only because némiring friends paid the mortgage,

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The 34th

niece

gramme that would stagger the ing, making

occasional average man half his age. Writ- speech, and directing work for a host of philanthropic organisa- tions, he still puts in good 12 to 15-hour working day. But never again will an ex- his

As President Eisenhower goes 11 greatest batlle Harry Truman regularly

know the grinding, final one. Dying of cancer, he President

Most urces speak of 34 Pre- into retirement, he could do no emulate Messrs lectures at various colleges, wrote two volumes of memoirs shameful poverty of Ulysses S. and William Howard Taft in provide his family with funds. Grant or James Madisoni, for

sidents to Kennedy, who is better than breath four 1058 law guarantees an annual referre to as becoming the 35th. Hoover and Truman.

Hoover is a prime example of (1909-13) taught at Yale. He drew his last

last pension of 25,000 dollars to all However, he actually will be the later becoming Chief Jus days after reading the

former Presidents.

34th person to serve as President. his own philosophy of retire- proot.

Cleveland's two non- ment. "There's no joy to be had tice of the Supreme Court,

Some of the ex-Presidents Grover The book brought nearly half-

plagued with alckness, consecutive terms (1805-80 and from retirement except some Ulysses S. Grant (1869- a-million dollars to a heirs, were

are usually counted kind of productive work. Other- while others enjoyed surprising- 1803-07)

wise you will; degenerate into 77) Was the only ex- but Grant dled destitule,

Retirement so separately.

talking to everybody about your Other ex-Presidents, too, were ly good health. seriously

Frankia Plerce President who

men At an age when many iried to become successful nancially hard pressed in re- overwhelmed

an would choose slippers and the pains, pilla and income tax.

Truman continues to live by After leaving the (1653-57) that he became tirement,

over-indulgence rocking chair, the two other the formula that has guided in private business. His White House, James Madison alcoholic, his

continue to live him most of his life: "Work made him a frequent spectacle ex-Presidents in the streets,

busy, fruitful lives.

hard, walk fast, sicep light, In genteel poverty.

James Monroe (1817-25) had On the lighter alde Millard Truman at 16 is much in de- and relax."

aka speaker. He also

---(London Express Service.) abandon his debt-ridden Fillmore and Benjamin Harrison mand

NEW nervous complaint called "space-phobia" efforts met with complete (1809-17) ved for twenty years -fear of being thrown off the earth into failure, and Grant became outer space is now put on medical record.

Dr Raphael Kerry, a Shemold

psychłuirist, reperts four cases! or intelligent men and women who developed space-phobla after reading about satellite launchings or watching them

on TV.

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On 33-year-old schoolmaster,

burly

toll Dr Kery that ha feared he would Boat off the earth and end up in orbit, "It's space that's getting me

the curvature of the globe makes everything insecure he explained, "We are T-

ment."

Some patients fear that the

Cath Is

about to be pushed off its axis or cullide with an other planet. They believe

penniless.

The men all set for glittering achievement

EVERY medical scientist who works on any project that promises to be an important dis- covery comes, at some stage in his research, to the time of crucial experiment,

rounded by a hostile envelop- į This experiment decides whether the discovery is of no more than academic interest or whether it breaks open the way for a broad advance in the assault on suffering. It also determines whether the scientist's name will be immortalised merely indexed among the thousands of averagely A married woman aged 2 said able workers in the musty journals of the medical

the collisions there might be up libraries.

Kunchings In-

that satellite ercase these risks.

she was worried "about all

in outer space because of this

Indiscriminate seading up of For Glasgow-born Dr Alick

satellites.

The

Isaacs, 39, of the National In-1

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DR. ALICK ISAACS H19 DIS YEAR

Who

are

THE WIZARDS

by CHAPMAN

1

PINCHER

OF '61?

viruses

1

Wintherford B. Hayes, 1877

Millard Filmoro, 1550 :

Benjamin Harrison, 1889

TALKING

POINTS

A diplomat is a man whe remembers # woman's birthday but never her age: -ROBERT FROST,

First doubt, then inquire, then discover.

-H.T. BUCKLE-

Knowledge without con- science is but the ruin of, the soul.

-RABELAIS.

The wise man reads both. books and life.

Success could also mean the founding of a great new phar- inaceutical industry bringing

the body. IL also so highly Virus Laboratory at Mill big royalties to Britain. And,

active agains! viruses when this year. mistily, on the horizon, there

While working in the World tried out in animals that only Waiting to be explored is the exclting observation that Inter- preoccupation stitute for Medical Research at maleroscopic organisms which are even the possibility of a new Influenza Centre at Mill Hill, small doses should be needed. growing

clue to the riddle of concer, and. by pentellin

not slep The crucial experiment-the feron does Dr Janes decided to Investigate with outer space is one of the Mill H, London, 1981 is to be unaffected

As with most advances, Dr the mechanism whereby one first use of Interferon against from attacking cancer cells. The features of our present elvilt the year of the crucial experl-similar agents. Influenza, the

cold, polio, measles, Trance's exciting work is based virus can interfere with another. n buman disease in patients-13 possibility that viruses could be sation," Dr Kerry reports, "itment. is not

Ry means of skilfully contrived due to be staged at a hospital deliberately employed to attack men surprising that it The possibilities are glittering. smallpox, mumps, yellow fever, on a long-known but little ex- should enter into the mini-A successful result could mean foot-and-month disease are but plored academie fact that when experiments he discovered that near Salisbury this year, Volun- cancer tissue while the rest of

of a virus of, say, influenza invades the invading virug Induces the teers will be treated of scores

see if it the body is protected by Inter- festation of certain neurotic the production of the first drug the best known

capable of defeating the scourges virus complaints affecting man a living cell prevents the cell to set free a hitherto un- is effective against the common teran seems extremely remote. eaved by viruses-the ultra- and his animals.

entry of any other virus.

known substance which not only cold. protects it against entry by Only then will Isaacs know another virus but helps to fight how effective the drug can be Le existing invader.

against viruses deeply en-

symptoms."

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Vital clue

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Wine hath drowned more

than the sen.

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trenched in the human body. But a vital clue may exist in POCKET CARTOON

By FRIELL

the

Dr Janpcs saw that if this Tests against fu, pollo, mesales. Isanca's bunch that interferon substance, now called Inter- and so on will follow.

muy be part of the mechanismi Ieron, could be isolated and What kind of man is this controlling cell-growth, which ma-produced, it could be used doctor-colentist who peers. Inta seems to be the crux of as a drug to boost the protective such a promising 1001? Though cancer problem. action of the small amounts of scientists come in all shapes, Isanes is not so dedicated Interferon naturally produced sizes, and temperaments he is his test tubes to sacrifice the in the body.

pretty typical of the innovators interests of bis Hampstead home responsible for the age of in his laboratory. wonders we Ilvo fṛ.

The cold

Is this way yells atroady, at- tacked by a dangerous virus, much na polio, might be helped to recover and cells not yet at- tacked might be protected.

Experiments over the last four

Exciting

to

He le enough of a family man to be already concerned about the chances of his 10-year-old twin boys in the 11-plus exami- nation and to take an active

He was educnted at Glasgow interest in the part-time work of University and was riot an out- his wife Susanna, who lea standingly brilliant student. Freudian psychoanalyst.

y cars have substantiated Dr Nor is he being too modest Although patents have been Isanca's hunch to such an extent when he says that he has been taken out to provent a repetition that three big Brlilsh drug fans Jucky to strike a line which of the penicillin fiasco when ore to make interferon at their gaems to lead to a new area of Britain éndéd up paying expense for medical trials, knowledge.

royalties to US Arms for tho

Dt Isaacs and his collaborg- Evon Sir Alexander. Fleming, right to make a British fors have shown that a stable discoverer of penleitun, owed ebvery, Allck Tania la cláithing form of Interferon can be made his fabulous cricueks to a mould no right to any of the financial in quantity from monkey tissue, which drifted in through his returns which might be Recently In his laboratory I laboratory window and while chombous, handied a big bottle. containing ho later developed us puntelilin. But he faces the bromfect dr I GUERLO, of the fe, furr Short, dark, and unagmaking, fáme and.. what sclentials rate while Interferon powder, n fsanos ja dotorinized to romain plost highly, the declamation of

Toska haya.shown that : It is n lnch rosearch: worker 'Whit his professional colleagues. Karmalong when interduced into when he becomes Kwad of th

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