Description: The author expresses an opinion opposing specialization within FSA examinations explaining that such activity should occur after achieving FSA.

Description: This article discusses the trend of increasing life expectancy due to the progress of molecular genetics and the possible social consequences. From The Actuary, January 1971, Vol. 5, No. 1.

Description: In the article in The Actuary, April 1972 the writer referred to the 15-year study of aging by Professor Edman Palmore of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development of Duke University. His research indicated that work satisfaction was the best overall predictor of longevity and the second was overall happiness, reflecting a person's general satisfaction with his or her situation. The author discusses Work in America a paper written during the Nixon administration.

Description: This article is a book review of Gerald T. Gruman's, A History of Ideas about the Prolongation of Life, which gives an historical view of the desire to extend the human life span.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 discusses Keynes impact on inflation.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 4 deals with the effects of aging on activities physical and mental and attitudes satisfactions.

Description: This article reviews environmental issues as discussed in The Doomsday Book by Thames and Hudson, London. From The Actuary, May 1971, Vol. 5, No. 5.

Description: This is a book review of 'The Biological Time-Bomb' by Gordon R. Taylor. The explosion inferred in the book's title is that of our advance in biological knowledge - man’s probe into nature: the origin of life, the deferment of death, tinkering with heredity, the transplantation of organs, etc.

Description: This article describes quotes from the Bible that relate to the length of life and compares them to modern life expectancy statistics.

Description: This report was prepared in response to a request by the Task Force on Life Insurance Cost Comparisons of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The Institute of Life Insurance was requested to deal with The nature of the whole life contract, taking into consideration the assumption that it may be separated into protection and savings elements ....