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Living to Be 150. Last summer, following the General Walker incident, Thurmond turned from civil rights to soldiers' rights. He unleashed a flood of statements and speeches demanding an investigation and maintaining that "among military personnel lies the real bastion of knowledge and understanding of the Communist threat, an understanding and knowledge long since lacking in the White House and the State Department."
Off the floor. Thurmond devotes himself to physical culture activities; he keeps barbells and a chest stretcher in his office, takes daily workouts in the Senate gym, and rides a bicycle. He abstains from whisky, tobacco, coffee, tea and even Coca-Cola, but he drinks prune juice with great gusto. "My God," says a Senate colleague, "the way he's going he ought to live to be 150." If he does, it is still doubtful that he will ever change his mind about any of his causes. For, as a fellow member of the Stennis subcommittee said last week, "Strom is very stubborn."