Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reader Torey Stanley of Oneida, Tenn., calls Social Security "truly a farce" [Nov. 28] and reports that he was denied benefits after an accident at age 22 because he "had not worked the past five out of twelve years." A wage earner disabled at 22 who meets all other requirements needs as few as six calendar quarter-years of work out of the past twelve to be insured, not five years...
...together Textron, one of the first conglomerates-those companies that sweep together the most wildly diverse businesses. Joining Textron at the invitation of Little, who warned him that he would be fired in a year if he did not prove his abilities, Miller became president in 1960 at the age of 35, chief executive in 1968 and chairman...
...Meany called him "a national disaster" because of his "inhuman" insensitivity to unemployment. Actually, Burns has carried a lifelong feeling for the plight of the jobless. This is partly the result of his own experience as a pre-World War I Austrian immigrant to Bayonne, N.J., where at the age of ten he knocked on doors to help his father find work. He once proposed a national jobs program that would cast the Government as the employer of last resort. If he gave first priority to fighting inflation, it was because of his heartfelt belief that inflation causes unemployment...
...killer, whose cold eyes are set off by his incongruously boyish voice and smile, or Reynolds' good-ole-boy con man, shooting from the lip as fast as Eastwood shoots from the hip. The comparison is not with their contemporary peers but with the major figures of the great age of screen heroism, to Coop and Gable, Bogie and Duke, those exemplars of the democratic notion that the seemingly ordinary could be, should be, the repository of the extraordinary...
...known "by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ," Screen Star Charlie Chaplin once said of himself. Yet when the Little Tramp of silent films was buried in Switzerland last week, following his death on Christmas Day at the age of 88, the final scene was a family affair. Wife Oona, 52, a small circle of friends and servants, and eight of Chaplin's nine children gathered in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the small village where he had lived for the last 25 years and where he was laid to rest in a plot overlooking Lake Geneva. Chaplin...