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Growing Older: Two Writers Clash Over Senior Citizen Label
In a News-Past feature, Harold Blumenfeld and Lou Cottin spar over aging and the Senior Citizen term. Cottin, 71, relays his activism and a 1968 awakening amid political and media neglect of the elderly while Blumenfeld recounts a journalist’s career and his later life partner efforts to keep older adults engaged.
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Harold
Blumenfeld
Cotun
NEA
Lou Cottin
New Hide Park
NY Lo
Long Island
Colume
Newsday
Coton
Marening
Wang Geaners
Lfe
Bern
City College of New York
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Cotlin
Univac
England
Holland
China
Cottin
Wentbury Deme
Scripps-Howard
United Press International Pacture
David Kennerly
White House
Gerald Ford
UPI
Joseph A. Sprague
National Press Photographers Association
Hallandale
Agg Prople
Beth Blumenie