Intelligence, and reflection, and judgment, reside in old men, and if there had been none of them, no states could exist at all.
Cicero (aged 62).
The resurgence of oldsters into wartime industry has given scientists a good chance to check up on this Ciceronian saw. In the Harvard Business Review Professor Ross Armstrong McFarland of the Harvard Medical School reported findings indicating that Cicero was right. The consensus of recent studies, McFarland's and others:
> In factories, oldsters have at least as good a production record as youngsters: e.g., in a sample group of...
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