People: Oct. 20, 1961

" 'You really must slow down'—this is becoming the repeated refrain of my children and friends," noted Reluctant Dowager Eleanor Roosevelt. She was obviously not listening as she sailed into her 78th year ( she has decided to celebrate only every fifth birthday ) with a convocation appearance at Memorial University in St John's. Nfld. and a call on the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s palaver in Manhattan. "How can I slow down." she wondered, "when the world is so challenging? I think I must have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore Roosevelt in m, because I...

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