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PERSPECTIVE
The police were called to help restore order at the Presbyterian Home for the Aged — the scene of a week-long revolt. Three militant octogenarians were arrested after a scuffle in the north parlor. They were identified as leaders in an activist group that seized control of the parlor three days before and locked the matron in the closet. The eighty-year old spokesman for the activists told reporters the demonstration was staged to enforce demands that the old folks be given more of a role in management. “We have a bunch of young whippersnappers running things around here,” he said, “and we don’t trust anybody under sixty-five.” Another one of the activists commented, “What is the sense of living a long time if some fifty-year-old kid is going to tell you what to do?”