Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Anka to Zeckendorf, some 1,500 of Manhattan's nabobs and thing-amabobs brought their fairest ladies to the $150-a-seat benefit premiere of The Movie Version (see CINEMA). The traffic jam packed 14 blocks of Broadway so solidly that Star Audrey Hepburn had to desert her limousine to trek the last block to the theater. Still, the snafu gave the locust swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed...
...fighting the coop," Dietz stated last night in a telephone interview from Warren, R.I., "I think the Coop's directors have they should have the benefit of some expert aesthetic advice in architecture and city planning...
...totally impractical. According to at least one expert estimate, if the system were to be made voluntary and only 15% of today's covered workers under 30 elected to drop out, the 1965 loss in contributions would amount to $1.5 billion; by 1968 the loss to the retirement benefit fund would amount to $8.5 billion, and by 1988 the social security program would be bankrupt...
Congress sacrificed monthly benefit increases, a popular proposal, for the cause of Medicare, which has many opponents. The additions to benefits were needed to keep payments in line with the rising cost of living, always a problem to those with fixed incomes, Only they have been punished...
Because the Medicare issue has aroused violent passions on all sides and since there are other proposals for financing such a program outside the Social Security system, it might better be considered separately from other revisions of Social Security. Then it will be possible to extend student benefits and to pass other reforms, such as a raise in the ceiling on outside earnings for those receiving benefits from the present low $1200 figure. If the Administration persists in tying Medicare to revisions in the benefit scale--unless a substantial number of stubborn minds can be changed--there may be little...