— Dr. Joseph Joffre of Montreal is 106 years old and recently underwent minor surgery at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital. But age will not stop him from participating in the annual “March to Jerusalem” May 3. “I have to get better now, he frets, “in time for the march. Joffre, a retired chemist, who is now convalescing, insists that his step is firm, his eyes are clear and his personality unruffled by time.
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