Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...big question all along has been: How many employees turning 65 would choose to keep working? It will not be fully answered until the law has been in effect a year or two, but the experience of companies that changed their policies earl-or never did force retirement at 65-indicates that the numbers will be small. As companies have made retirement benefits more generous, the trend for decades has been toward earlier, not later retirement. For example, at Republic Steel Corp., which has never had mandatory retirement, less than 1% of the 40,000 workers stay on past...
Hilton had an ego as big as his chain, and he kept the vanity press busy printing books praising himself; his folksy upbeat autobiography, Be My Guest, is in every one of the company's 64,000 hotel rooms, right next to the Gideon Bible. He lived regally in a 61-room mansion named Casa Encantata in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles, where 19 servants filled his every need, including buying his clothes. Yet Hilton retained an almost childlike wonder at the world around him. He also had some simple tastes, preferring corned beef hash or pork...
...healing continues, the doctors will attempt to rejoin the leg's severed nerve in a few months. Though they conceded that the chances of retaining the limb are only fifty-fifty, they were optimistic. So was Elizabeth, who basked in all the attention and even asked for a Big...
...Star Wars hit, the studio returned to the project at a speed approaching warp seven. The new movie will have an expensive layering of special effects. Optics Wizard Robert Abel has been hired to give that cloud of electric whipped cream a throbbing, ominous personality. "It's so big you can't make a model of it," he hints vaguely. "It's so awesome, so powerful and has so many unique identities . . ." When the monster first appears, audiences will see a surface Abel has constructed out of filmed layers of highspeed light streaking, chemically milled metal, animation...
...show. Stars were holes punched in black paper, the crew was beamed in and out of the ship with simple light tricks, and the instrument boards were plywood. Whole shows were done on one set to save money. "I'd have blown my whole budget landing that big mother of a ship each week," Roddenberry says. These days he has a problem of affluence: how to update and add the newest wrinkles in special effects without losing "the elements that really count...