Judge Sullivan’s idea that men will sometime live to be 500 years old may prove true, but there is nothing enticing about the prospect. Unless the vigor of youth can accompany old age, the quincentenarian would be a Struldbrug or a Tithonus, a monster of senile hideousness or a being withered away to a whisper.

Five of the missiles fired by China landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan’s main islands, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said Japan protested the missile landings to China as “serious threats to Japan’s national security and the safety of the Japanese people.”

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At a quarter past eleven a succession of chars-à-bancs brought up specially-invited guests from the station and I went down into the compound to assist at the reception.